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Alice Putnam

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232: 104:. In 1880, Putnam was instrumental in founding the Chicago Free Kindergarten Association and the Chicago Froebel Association where numerous American kindergarten teachers were trained. Known for her practical, non-dogmatic approach to the kindergarten and her child-centered methods, Putnam influenced many younger kindergarten teachers, including Anna Bryan, whom she trained, and Annie Howe, who brought kindergarten to Japan. 289: 51:. How well she did her work, hundreds can testify who sat in her classes and took her training in the Chicago Froebel Kindergarten Training School. These pupils are scattered all over the world wherever the education of little children is going forward, and there you will find the spirit and teaching of Alice H. Putnam. 42:
Putnam "became interested in the kindergarten when her children were young". She therefore "found ways of combining her own mothering with working to help others to become better mothers". "Realizing that she needed kindergarten training, Putnam took her oldest daughter with her to Columbus, Ohio,
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Putnam was also directly involved in the founding and operation of the Chicago Free Kindergarten Association and the Chicago Kindergarten Club, both of which sponsored various programs throughout the city.
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from its organization, in 1883, until her death, serving on its most important committees, and twice as its president.
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She left her home to study the new method of education, and came back filled with the principles and philosophy of
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Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present
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Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present
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La Orme Ladd, Sadie F. Smith, and Thord Lund, "In Memory of Alice H. Putnam",
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in 1874, and was described as "the pioneer of the Kindergarten" in that city.
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where she studied in a training school run by Anna J. Ogden".
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Kindergartens and Cultures: The Global Diffusion of an Idea
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Elizabeth Harrison and the Kindergarten Movement in Chicago
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Alice Harvey Whiting Putnam
Chicago
Froebel
Elizabeth Harrison
International Kindergarten Union
Maria Kraus-Boelte
Susan Blow
Jane Addams
John Dewey
Francis W. Parker
Hull House
University of Chicago
Cook County Normal School
Oak Woods Cemetery





Elizabeth Harrison and the Kindergarten Movement in Chicago
National Louis University







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