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Caroline Pratt

Mary Connolly

Minor Contributions

Major Contributions

  • Continued to allow children to learn through play as Froebel did.
  • Discouraged a fixed curriculum.
  • Allowed children to learn through their actions and were given practical jobs to learn their place in the world and how to fulfill their duties.

Biography

After School Programs

Unit Blocks

References

"In his play (he) was thinking, learning, setting down his understanding of the way things worked, the relationship of facts to each other....educating himself"

  • 1930s, City and Country School began an after school program.

-this led to the incorporation of Pratt's education philosophy in the same schools as well.

  • 1867-1954.
  • Fayetville, New York.
  • Taught first grade and found her passion for the kindergarten movement.
  • Philadelphia Normal School-Hartley School- Henry Street Settlement House.
  • 1914-Pratt opened her own school in Greenwich Village, New York.

http://www.pgpedia.com/p/caroline-pratt

Play School

  • 3 room apartment and served young children around the age of four that came from the working class families.
  • Gradually the school became more widely known and accepted and she began to admit older children up to the age of 13.
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