The Evolution of the Nursery-infant School: A History of Infant and Nursery Education in Britain, 1800-1970 |
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The Evolution of the Nursery-infant School: A History of Infant and Nursery ... Nanette Whitbread No preview available - 1972 |
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activities age of five attendance Board of Education cent centred century chil child child-centred child-minders children under five Circular classroom curriculum day nurseries developmental tradition dren early educa education authorities England English environment experience favour five-year-olds free kindergartens Friedrich Froebel Froebel Froebelian Hadow HMSO Independent Labour Party infant education infant schools infant stage infant teachers influence inspectors junior schools Kegan Paul kindergarten learning Leicester local education authorities London Margaret McMillan ment methods Methuen middle-class Montessori Montessori Method mothers movement need for nurseries nursery and infant nursery classes nursery education nursery provision nursery schools nursery-infant school opened parents part-time Pestalozzi playgroups Plowden post-war practice pressure primary schools provision of nursery Report Robert Owen rote learning Samuel Wilderspin School Society schools for children separate infant schools seven skills slums social classes Susan Isaacs teaching theory tion under-fives urban voluntary war-time nurseries working-class young children