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Davis, Mary Dabney – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
As plans for expansion of the emergency nursery school program were being considered in 1934, opportunity was offered for the author of this bulletin to visit some of the European countries and observe their programs. The Office of Education accepted this voluntary offer and the author, who had been loaned by the Office to the Federal Emergency…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, School Activities, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
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Grosvenor, Ian – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
This article looks at two modern institutions designed to discipline and control urban bodies--the school and the asylum--and the records they produced and the young people whose moral and cognitive capacities they tended. Both institutions are the sites of past childhood stories, yet the lives experienced in them are essentially anonymous. The…
Descriptors: Historians, Children, Biographies, Educational History