Sharing Early Education History Through Media and Technology:
Helpful Hints From The Field
Blythe F. Hinitz
Professor ELEM/ECED
The College of New Jersey
November 20, 1998
I’d like to take you on a guided odyssey through three centuries of early education and women’s history via the Internet. As a result of the research for our forthcoming book on the history of early childhood education from antiquity to the present, I have spent countless, enjoyable hours in actual dusty archives around the globe; and equally as many hours traveling around the world and back in time through Internet links to virtual reality, using such print materials as books, journals, newspapers, yearbooks, and encyclopedias; some electronic texts and on-line journals; garnering information from historical societies; utilizing the resources made available by federal, state and local government agencies; perusing art exhibits; learning from college, university and other professors websites; discovering library special collections homepages; peeking at teachers and their students through school web pages; perusing publishers websites; savoring photograph collections; learning from travel and location websites; and visiting women’s’ history sites. In the brief time allotted today, I’d like to share with you some of my favorites from two years of research drawing on some of the resources accessible through the Net. I’ll be happy the answer queries, if I can, via email at the following Email address: hinitz@tcnj.edu I suggest that if you have a true interest in this field, you will want to join the AERA Division F listserve, which serves as a clearinghouse for queries on the history of education in general, and which "saved" me several times during the last two years as I was writing and editing my portion of the manuscript. I also suggest that you bookmark the History of Education Web Site which is located at http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/whp/histeduc/ It is maintained by Dr. Henk von Setten of the Netherlands, who updates it monthly. Not only are new links and resources added monthly, but the photographs, artworks, and primary sources documents are changed frequently. When I checked it last week, a photograph of ten year old Maria Montessori was the "frontpiece" for one of the sections. It was the first time I had seen a picture of Dr. Montessori as a child.
Books
Malaspina Great Books — Locke http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/locke.htm#top
American Education (summary for graduate students) http://www.ualr.edu/~coedept/ae2300/chapters/unit1/ch4.html
Newspapers
The Washington Post August 18, 1991 Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn
Yearbooks
Donald Arnstine Educator’s Impossible Dream
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/COE/EPS-Yearbook/92_docs/DArnstine.HTM
Encyclopedias
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — St. Louis Hegelians http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hstlouis.htm
Electronic texts
Source Readers in American History — Colonial Children
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ etcbin/toccer-new?id=HarColo&tag=public&part=front
Institute for Learning Technologies — Columbia University Enlightenment
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/academic/digitexts/notes/enlightenment.html
On-line journals
Sherman Dorn Editor of history section of the on-line Education Review.
http://www.ed.asu.edu/edrev/ [personal: www.coedu..usf..edu/~dorn]
Lester F. Goodchild G. Stanley Hall and the Study of Higher Education (paper)
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/the/20.1goodchild.html
Historical Societies
Missouri Historical Society William Torrey Harris Collection http://library.wustl.edu/~spec/archives/aslaa/mo-hist-archives.html
Government Agencies
Federal
Library of Congress — search http://lcweb2.gov or http://lcweb.loc.gov
The African Mosaic — Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Head Start Performance Measures http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/toc.htm [or /report.htm]
Head Start Research http://ericps.crc.uiuc.edu/nccic/research/nrc_bynd/nrc_bynd.html
Transition Grant 1991-1997 http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsre/ongoing_research/hsresearch3.html
http://pride.soe.uaa.alaska.edu/www/pride/Transition/transition.html
Office of Education Library — Early Years http://inet.ed.gov/NLE/early.html
White House Conferences: Child Development (4/97)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/ECDC/About.html
Child Care (10/97) http://www.whitehouse.gov/New/Childcare/index.html
State
Margot Ford McMillan Missouri’s Child: Culture and Education in the Show-Me State http://mosl.sos.stste.mo.us/ofman/child1.html
Art exhibits
The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood: The Child Learns: Academic, Religious and Moral Training Berkeley, CA 1995 http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/newchild/index.html
College and University
Oxford University http://swift.eng.ox.ac.ukjdr/rouseau.html [or locke.html]
History of Clark University http://www.clarku.edu/clarkhistory.html
Bank Street College of Education and school http://www.bnkst.edu/abs.html
library special collections
National Library of Wales Robert Owen Collection http://www.llgc.org.uk/1p/1p0125.html
Rutgers Special Collections includes manuscripts/ papers from the Modern School Association
PACSCL — Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
http://www.libertynet.org:80/~pacscl/intro.html
Penn Library Special Collections — Van Pelt-Dietrich Library (Philadelphia Centennial Kindergarten Exposition, Peabody’s magazine and books)
lectures/ papers
McNeil’s lectures on Rousseau’s Emile http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/m3lecla.htm
Women in two classical books — comparison by A. Aliaga-Buchenau http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/4D/A.Aliaga-Buchenau.html
other professors websites/ home pages
David G. Likely History of Psychology
http://www.unb.ca/web/units/psych/likely/psych4053.htm
G. Stanley Hall and the Testing Movement http://sun1.iusb.edu/eduweb01/hall.html
Infanticide in Victorian England http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~cjr2q/victorian/general.intro.html
History of Child Labor http://www.earlham.edu/earlhamcollege/polisci/globlprobs/children/Laila.html
school web pages
The Early Days Information Technology Internet Project Los Angeles School System honoring the system’s centennial in 1955
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/history/eyr2.html [also http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/history/eyr2.htmleyr2.html#Pioneer Schools in L. A. and http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/history/eyr2.htmleyr2.html#The First School]
Colonial Teachers
www.cesa10.k12.wi.us/Investigate-America/Colonial/Education/edpage5
publishers websites
Arden Press of Philadelphia — Philadelphia Normal School — Class Day June 29, 1898 includes on faculty: Caroline L. Pratt — Teacher of Woodworking
Photograph collections
Photo of Robert Owen http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/pic/people/general/pgrowen.html
Photographs by Dorothea Lange of Manzanar and other relocation camps
Grandfather and grandson http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/Bancroft/z027.html
Salute of Innocence [Children of the Weill public school April, 1942]
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf092.jpg
Travel and location websites
New Lanark http://www.biggar-net.co.uk/tour/newlan.htm
New Lanark Mills — The Falls of Clyde http://www.aboutscotland.co.uk/water/clyden1.html
New Harmony, Indiana http://www.usi.edu/hnh/hnh1.htm
Women’s’ history sites
Women in the Workplace — Education
http://www.thehistorynet.com/WomensHistory/articles/19963_text.htm
World War II Japanese-American Internment Camps
World War II Japanese American Internment [paper on-line]
http://www.mindscape.com/reference/california/japan.html
Camp Harmony [Exhibit on-line] Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project, University of Washington Libraries http://weber.u.washington.edu/~mudrock/ALLEN/Exhibit/index.html
Class Schedule for Eight to Eleven Year Olds (Hiroyuki Ichihara Papers Reel 2) Manuscripts and Archives, UW Libraries [Exhibit on-line]
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~mudrock/ALLEN/Exhibit/school.html
organizations
Maria Montessori
http://www.Montessori.org/library/drstoop.htm
http://www.Montessori.org/Mariawho.htm by Tim Seldin
