Early Years Pioneers in Context

Their lives, lasting influence and impact on practice today

Pam Jarvis, Louise Swiniarski, Wendy Holland

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317600084
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This accessible text provides an international study of critical educational leaders who established the foundation for Early Childhood Education across continents in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It places each pioneer within the time and culture in which they lived to help the reader understand how theories and knowledge about early years education and care have evolved over time.

Early Years Pioneers in Context traces key themes such as play, child-initiated learning, working with parents, scaffolding children's learning and the environment, enabling students to reflect on the differences and similarities between the pioneers and understand their contribution to practice today. Pioneers covered include:

• Frederick Froebel
• Elizabeth Peabody
• Susan Blow
• Rudolf Steiner
• Margaret McMillan
• Maria Montessori
• Susan Isaacs
• Loris Malaguzzi

Featuring student integration tasks to help the reader link key ideas to their own practice, this will be essential reading for early years students on undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the authors and contributor
• Foreword by Jonathan Doherty
• 1. An introduction to early years pioneers in context—PAM JARVIS, LOUISE SWINIARSKI AND WENDY HOLLAND
• 2. Early years pioneers: in the beginning—PAM JARVIS
• 3. Frederick Froebel (1782–1852): the “garden of children”—LOUISE SWINIARSKI
• 4. Elizabeth Peabody (1804–94): implementing Froebel’s play-based learning—LOUISE SWINIARSKI
• 5. Susan Blow (1843–1916): funding kindergartens and training professionals for American kindergartens in public education—LOUISE SWINIARSKI
• 6. Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925): the anthroposophical approach—WENDY HOLLAND
• 7. Margaret McMillan (1860–1931): the original ‘liberatory pedagogue’—PAM JARVIS AND BETTY LIEBOVICH
• 8. Maria Montessori (1870–1952): scientific pedagogy—WENDY HOLLAND
• 9. Susan Isaacs (1885–1948): a message in a bottle—PAM JARVIS
• 10. Loris Malaguzzi (1920–94): liberatory pedagogy for democracy—WENDY HOLLAND
• 11. What now for the pioneers?—PAM JARVIS, LOUISE SWINIARSKI AND WENDY HOLLAND
• Index