The Historical Antecedents of Early Childhood Education

Baylor Ruth M. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: Kindergarten Pioneer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965.

Bradbury Dorothy E. “The Case for Nursery Schools.” Childhood Education 12 (1936): 406–08.

Carr William G. “The Status of the Kindergarten.” Childhood Education 10 (1934): 283–85, 374–76, 425–28.

Cohen Sol “Educating the Children of the Urban Poor: Maria Montessori and Her Method.” Education and Urban Society 1 (1968): 61–79.

Cohen Sol “Maria Montessori: Priestess or Pedagogue?” Teachers College Record 71 (1969): 313–26.

Cremin Lawrence A. The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876–1957. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1961.

Davis Mary Dabney. Schools for Children Under Six. U.S. Office of Education Bulletin 15, 1947. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1947.

Dewey John The Child and the Curriculum and School and Society. 1956 ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.

Dewey John Democracy and Education. 1966 ed. New York: Free Press, 1966.

Fisher Laura “The Kindergarten.” Report of the Commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Education, pp. 689–719. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904.

Frost Joe L. ed. Early Childhood Education Rediscovered. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968.

Gesell Arnold The Mental Growth of the Pre-School Child. New York: Macmillan Co., 1925.

Gesell Arnold The Pre-School Child From the Standpoint of Public Hygiene and Education. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923.

Gesell Arnold “The Significance of Nursery School.” Childhood Education 1 (1924): 11–20.

Hechinger Fred M. ed. Preschool Education Today. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1966.

Kilpatrick William H. The Montessori System Examined. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914.

Lazerson Marvin Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870–1915. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Lazerson Marvin “Social Reform and Early Childhood Education: Some Historical Perspectives.” Urban Education 5 (1970): 83–102.

Lazerson Marvin “Urban Reform and the Schools: Kindergarten in Massachusetts, 1870–1915.” History of Education Quarterly 11 (1971): 115–42.

Montessori Maria The Montessori Method. New York: Schocken Books, 1964.

National Society for the Study of Education. The Coordination of the Kindergarten and Elementary School. Seventh Yearbook, Part II. Bloomington, Ill.: Public School Publishing Co., 1908.

National Society for the Study of Education. The Kindergarten and Its Relation to Elementary Education. Sixth Yearbook, Part II. Bloomington, Ill.: Public School Publishing Co., 1907.

National Society for the Study of Education. Preschool and Parental Education. Twenty-eighth Yearbook. Bloomington, Ill.: Public School Publishing Co., 1929.

Palmer Luella A. Adjustment Between Kindergarten and First Grade. U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin 24, 1915. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915.

Peabody Elizabeth P. Lectures in the Training Schools for Kindergartners. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1893.

Smith Nora A. The Kindergarten in a Nutshell. Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Co., 1899.

Strickland Charles , and Burgess Charles eds. Health, Growth and Heredity: G. Stanley Hall on Education. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1965.

Vandewalker Nina C. The Kindergarten in American Education. New York: Macmillan Co., 1908.

Weber Evelyn The Kindergarten: Its Encounter with Educational Thought In America. New York: Teachers College Press, 1969.

Wiggin Kate Douglas ed. The Kindergarten. New York: Harper Bros., 1893.

Wishy Bernard The Child and the Republic: The Dawn of Modern American Child Nurture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.