What Arnold Gesell Would Advocate Today

Autor/in	Bergen, Doris
Titel	What Arnold Gesell Would Advocate Today
Quelle	In: Childhood Education, 93 (2017) 3, S.199-203 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-4056
DOI	10.1080/00094056.2017.1325229
Schlagwörter	Nursery Schools; Early Childhood Education; Child Development; Young Children; Preschool Children; Child Health; Child Welfare; Disabilities; Inclusion; Access to Education; Profiles + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nursery school; Kindertagesstätte; Kindergarten; Vorschule; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Kindesentwicklung; Frühe Kindheit; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Kindeswohl; Handicap; Behinderung; Inklusion; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse
Abstract	The first issue of "Childhood Education," published in 1924, included an article by the eminent physician, Arnold Gesell. In the article, "The Significance of the Nursery School" he advocated for early childhood education, indicating its importance for both promoting the development of young children and supporting and strengthening families. He discussed the history of the nursery school, including Plato's recommendation for community nurseries, the early establishment of a nursery school in the United States by followers of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Robert Owen, and the influence of these advocates on Friedrich Froebel's later kindergarten model. Gesell also discussed the "educational significance of the preschool period" and noted that the education of very young children is related to child health, mental health, and social welfare. He advocated for children with special needs to be integrated into early childhood programs and noted how the nursery school is significant as a provider of a solid start up the "educational ladder." Although the original article was written in the more formal language of the period in which Dr. Gesell was working, his ideas are as fresh, insightful, strong, and convincing as if it had been written today. In this article, Doris Bergen concludes that Dr. Gesell would probably be surprised and disappointed to discover that in 2017 there is still no universal preschool in the United States supporting what he believed were "the educational possibilities of the preschool child." (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01