The Imagination of Early Childhood Education

557 Pages·1999·3.42 MB·English

by  Harry Morgan

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The Imagination of Early Childhood Education
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The Imagination of Early Childhood Education
Harry Morgan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Morgan, Harry, 1926–
The imagination of early childhood education / Harry Morgan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–89789–594–0 (alk. paper)
1. Early childhood education—Philosophy. 2. Early childhood
education—History. 3. Early childhood education—Curricula.
4. Montessori method of education. I. Title.
LB1139.23.M67 1999
372.21—dc21 98–38309
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.
Copyright © 1999 by Harry Morgan All rights reserved. No portion of this
book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98–38309
ISBN: 0–89789–594–0
First published in 1999
Bergin & Garvey, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper
Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization
(Z39.48–1984).
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Copyright Acknowledgments The author and publisher gratefully
acknowledge permission for the use of the following material: Excerpted
from “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth
Anniversary of the Emancipation.” Collected in The Fire Next Time ©
1962, 1963 by James Baldwin. Copyright renewed. Reprinted by
arrangement with the James Baldwin Estate.
From Mind in Society by L. S. Vygotsky, edited by Michael Cole, Vera
John-Steiner, Sylvia Scribner, Ellen Souberman. Copyright © 1978 by the
President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission of
Harvard University Press.
From “The Direct Instruction Follow-Through Model: Design and
Outcomes,” by S. Engelmann, W. C. Becker, C. Douglas, and G. Russell.
Education and Treatment of Children 11(4): 303–317. Used by
permission of Education and Treatment of Children.
From The School of Infancy by John Amos Comenius. Edited with an
introduction by Ernest M. Eller. Copyright © 1956 by the University of
North Carolina Press, renewed 1984 by Ernest M. Eller. Used by
permission of the publisher.
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This book is dedicated to the pioneers of early childhood education, who
include, but are not limited to, Caroline D. Aborn, Felix Adler, Henry
Barnard, Barbara Biber, Susan Elizabeth Blow, Anna E. Bryan, Ruth
Burritt, Horace Bushnell, Sarah B. Cooper, Abigail Eliot, Mary J. Garland,
Elizabeth Gilkeson, Barbara Greenwood, William Nicholas Hailmann,
William Torrey Harris, Elizabeth Harrison, Caroline T. Haven, Patty Smith
Hill, James Hymes, Jr., Josephine Jarvis, Harriet Johnson, Maria Kraus-
Boelté, Matilda Kriege, Margaret McMillan, Rachel McMillan, Emma
Marwedel, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Anna Ogden, Hortense Orcutt, Keith
Osborne, Anne L. Page, Elizabeth Peabody, Susan Pollock, Caroline
Pratt, Alice H. Putnam, Pauline Agassiz Shaw, Margaret J. Stannard,
Lucretia Treat, Nina C. Vandewalker, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Catherine R.
Watkins, Lucy Wheelock, Edna Noble White, and Kate Douglas Wiggin.
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Contents
Introduction 1
1. Historical Imagination 13
2. Philosophical Imagination 89
3. Theoretical Imagination 119
4. Curriculum Imagination 139
5. Montessori Imagination 169
6. The Imagination of Literature 185
Conclusion 215
Selected Bibliography 227
Index 243