Kindergartens and cultures
Subtitle: the global diffusion of an idea
By: edited by Roberta Wollons.
Contributors: Wollons, Roberta Lyn, 1947-
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Kindergarten -- History -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Children between public and private worlds: the kindergarten and public policy in Germany, 1840-present / Ann Taylor Allen; title: "The letter killeth": Americanization and multicultural education in kindergartens in the United States, 1865-1920 / Barbara Beatty; title: The kindergarten in England, 1851-1918 / Kevin J. Brehony; title: The development of kindergartens in Australia at the turn of the twentieth century: a response to social pressures and educational influences / Margaret Clyde; title: The missionary kindergarten in Japan / Roberta Wollons; title: The Chinese kindergarten movement, 1903-1927 / Limin Bai; title: Preschool education in Poland / Bogna Lorence-Kot and Adam Winiarz; title: The kindergarten and the revolutionary tradition in Russia / Lisa Kirschenbaum; title: Managing the young anarchists: kindergartens and national culture in postcolonial Vietnam / Thaveeporn Vasavakul; title: The kindergarten in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic / Benjamin C. Fortna; title: Education and culture in early childhood: a revolution in Jewish schooling, 1899-1948 / Shoshana Sitton.