Table of Contents
Children between public and private worlds: the kindergarten and public policy in Germany, 1840-present / Ann Taylor Allen -- "The letter killeth": Americanization and multicultural education in kindergartens in the United States, 1865-1920 / Barbara Beatty -- The kindergarten in England, 1851-1918 / Kevin J. Brehony -- The development of kindergartens in Australia at the turn of the twentieth century: a response to social pressures and educational influences / Margaret Clyde -- The missionary kindergarten in Japan / Roberta Wollons -- The Chinese kindergarten movement, 1903-1927 / Limin Bai -- Preschool education in Poland / Bogna Lorence-Kot and Adam Winiarz -- The kindergarten and the revolutionary tradition in Russia / Lisa Kirschenbaum -- Managing the young anarchists: kindergartens and national culture in postcolonial Vietnam / Thaveeporn Vasavakul -- The kindergarten in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic / Benjamin C. Fortna -- Education and culture in early childhood: a revolution in Jewish schooling, 1899-1948 / Shoshana Sitton.