Preface Introduction Johann Amos Comenius John Dewey Ella Victoria Dobbs Abigail Adams Eliot Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel Arnold Lucius Gesell William Nicholas Hailmann Granville Stanley Hall William Torrey Harris and Susan E. Blow Elizabeth Harrison Patty Smith Hill Amy M. Hostler Leland B. Jacobs William Heard Kilpatrick Lucy Craft Laney John Locke Emma Jacobina Christiana Marwedel Margaret McMillan and Rachel McMillan Lucy Sprague Mitchell Maria Montessori Robert Owen Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Jean Piaget Caroline Pratt Alice Harvey Whiting Putnam Jean Jacques Rousseau Alice Temple Mary Church Terrell and The National Association of Colored Women Edward Lee Thorndike Evangeline H. Ward Lillian Weber Lucy Wheelock Kate Douglas Wiggin Appendix Bibliography Index
Profiles more than 30 leaders in early childhood education from the 17th century to the present and presents annotated bibliographies of primary and secondary sources.
BARBARA RUTH PELTZMAN is an Associate Professor in the Dividion of Education, Notre Dame College, St. John's University. Her numerous articles have appeared in publications such as Reading Instruction Journal, The Reading Teacher, Learning Disabilities News, and Research and Teaching in Developmental Education. She is alos the author of Anna Freud: A Guide to Research (1990). An internationally respected scholar and researcher, she has presented papers at conferences around the world, and is a Fellow of the College of Preceptors in Essex, England.
?Barbara Ruth Peltzman...has provided a useful resource for
information about early childhood educators, from its roots in the
17th century work of Johann Amos Comenius through our current
era.?-Education Libraries
?For researchers in the history and philosophy of early childhood
education, this is an essential source. It appears to be unique in
the field.?-ARBA
?Peltzman states that her purpose is to provide researchers and
practitioner with a bibliographic resource....the annotated
bibliographies represent an impressive scholarly effort that will
offer the majority of readers some new sources of information to
pursure and prompt others to remember reference volumes already
gracing their own bookshelves.?-History of Education Quarterly
"Barbara Ruth Peltzman...has provided a useful resource for
information about early childhood educators, from its roots in the
17th century work of Johann Amos Comenius through our current
era."-Education Libraries
"For researchers in the history and philosophy of early childhood
education, this is an essential source. It appears to be unique in
the field."-ARBA
"Peltzman states that her purpose is to provide researchers and
practitioner with a bibliographic resource....the annotated
bibliographies represent an impressive scholarly effort that will
offer the majority of readers some new sources of information to
pursure and prompt others to remember reference volumes already
gracing their own bookshelves."-History of Education Quarterly
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