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The United States and the World: A History of Connections in Early Childhood Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Blythe E. Hinitz
Blythe E. Hinitz*
Affiliation:
Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at The College of New Jersey
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As examples from this issue show, early education practice around the world has long been intertwined and the care and education provided for young children in most places draws at least in part from non-indigenous sources. A review of the articles reveals numerous parallels and even direct linkages between U.S. early childhood advocates and educators and each of the countries highlighted. Similarities are to be found, for example, in their patterns of development and in the impediments faced by the advocates and founders of day nurseries, kindergartens, and nursery schools in each country. Collaboration between early childhood educators in the United States and their counterparts around the world, beginning in the 1800s with ocean voyages and postal mail, has grown today with the use of modern technology and the continuation of consultative visits by U.S. experts to many lands.

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Commentary
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , May 2009 , pp. 235 - 237
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Copyright © 2009 History of Education Society 

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References

1 See, for example, Greenberg, Polly, “Before the Beginning: A Participant's View.” Young Children 45, 6 (September 1990): 42–46; Anderson, Charlotte J., “Contributions of James Lee Hymes, Jr. to the Field of Early Childhood Education” (PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin, 2003); Osborn, D. Keith, Early Childhood Education in Historical Perspective, 3rd ed. (Athens, GA: Daye Press, 1991); Lascarides, V. Celia and Hinitz., Blythe E History of Early Childhood Education (London: Falmer Press, 2000); and Ranck, Edna R., “The Eisenhower Legacy for Early Childhood: The Vital Links Between the Lanham Act and Head Start,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, New Orleans, LA, 12 November 1992.Google Scholar