1. Women and Children 2. ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me…’: The Infant School Movement During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 3. The Power of First Impressions: The First Attempts to Design a Child-Centred Pedagogy 4. Women’s Science: Froebel, the Kindergarten Movement and Feminism 5. Laboratories of Human Relationships: The Rise of a Scientific Pedagogy in the United States, and the Role of the Nursery Schools in the Process (1890-1940) 6. Regulating Emotions: Maternal Love, Emotional Bonds and Discipline 7. Project Head Start: Efforts to Break the Cycle of Deprivation 8. Attachment Theory and Day-Care: Sensitive Mothers and the Feminist Struggle for Child-Care Facilities 9. Conclusions. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
Biography
Elly Singer
