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Halperin, Dora – 1986
The cultural nature of the concept of the child in American early childhood education from 1880 to the present was examined. Chapters 1 through 10 consider the following concepts: (1) the child as a theoretical construction in a review of the literature; (2) the exaltation of childhood by Froebel and the American Froebelians; (3) the savage child…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cultural Influences, Definitions