Day Nurseries & Childcare in Europe, 1800–1939

• Main Author: Caroli, Dorena (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Europe > History.; Education > History.; History of Education.; Early Childhood Education.; European History.

This book traces the birth and evolution of the crèche in France, England, Germany, Russia and Italy from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, in an attempt to understand from a transnational viewpoint the history of an institution for very young children that was very diff...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Birth and Spread of Crèches in France between The Second Republic and The Second World War
• Chapter 2. The Spread of Day Nurseries in England
• Chapter 3. Dissemination of Crèches in Germany by the Prussian Empire to National Socialism
• Chapter 4. Dissemination of Crèches in Czarist and Soviet Russia
• Chapter 5. The Rise of Crèches from The Restoration to the Unification of Italy
• Chapter 6. The Development of the Crèches by Crispi's Law until Fascism.