Overview
- Centers an understudied element of women’s educational history by focusing on the women behind the scenes of one influential educational movement
- Contextualizes and scrutinizes the figures behind the Montessori movement's rise and development in the United States in the twentieth century
- Contributes to several intersecting fields of scholarship, including educational foundations, women’s educational history, and educational biography
Part of the book series: Historical Studies in Education (HSE)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle. Caught up in the Montessori craze sweeping the United States in the Progressive era, each played a significant role in the initial transference of Montessori education to America and its implementation from 1910 to 1920. Despite the continuing international recognition of Maria Montessori and the presence of Montessori schools world-wide, Montessori receives only cursory mention in the history of education, especially by recognized historians in the field and in courses in professional education and teacher preparation. The authors, in seeking to fill this historical void, integrate institutional history with analysis of the interplay and tensions between these four women to tell this educational story in an interesting—and often dramatic—way.
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—Lucy E. Bailey, Director of Gender and Women’s Studies, Oklahoma State University, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Gerald L. Gutek is Professor Emeritus of Education and History at Loyola University Chicago, USA, where he was also the Dean of the School of Education. His previous books include New Perspectives on Philosophy and Education (2009).
Patricia A. Gutek is an editor, travel writer, and independent scholar whose previous book co-authored with Gerald Gutek, Bringing Montessori to America (2016), was a 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: America's Early Montessorians
Book Subtitle: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst and Adelia Pyle
Authors: Gerald L. Gutek, Patricia A. Gutek
Series Title: Historical Studies in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54835-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54834-6Published: 06 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54837-7Published: 06 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54835-3Published: 05 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-7173
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 307
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Education, Early Childhood Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Curriculum Studies, Educational Philosophy, US History