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Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children
Hamilton Cravens
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Description for Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children
Paperback. Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JNLA; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start , Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on the national level and from the perspective of the field's best-known research center, the University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station. Addressing the changing role played by women and the importance of Rockefeller philanthropy, he shows how a women's reform movement became a male-dominated, conservative profession and demonstrates how lay pressure groups can influence the structures and processes of ... Read more
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start , Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on the national level and from the perspective of the field's best-known research center, the University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station. Addressing the changing role played by women and the importance of Rockefeller philanthropy, he shows how a women's reform movement became a male-dominated, conservative profession and demonstrates how lay pressure groups can influence the structures and processes of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807854327
SKU
V9780807854327
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99-3
About Hamilton Cravens
Hamilton Cravens, professor of history at Iowa State University, is author of The Triumph of Evolution: The Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900-1941.
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