1st Edition
Educating Young Children in WPA Nursery Schools Federally-Funded Early Childhood Education from 1933-1943
By Molly Arboleda
Copyright 2019
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Educating Young Children in WPA Nursery Schools , the first full-length national study of the WPA nursery school program, helps to explain why universal preschool remains an elusive goal. This book argues that program success in operating nursery schools throughout the United States during the Great Depression was an important New Deal achievement. By highlighting the program’s strengths—its... Read more
Introduction
Chapter One, "WPA Nursery Schools as Educational Reform"
Chapter Two, "American Modernism and the WPA Nursery School Curriculum"
Chapter Three, "The WPA Nursery School and the Community"
Chapter Four, "In Time of War"
Chapter Five, "Buried Treasure"
Biography
Molly Quest Arboleda received a Ph.D. in History from Claremont Graduate University, USA.
