Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children

ISBN-13: 9780367327200 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 376 str.

Philip Graham

Opis

This biography provides a critical account of the life and work of Susan Isaacs (1885-1948). This educationist, a pioneer of child-centred education in Britain was also an early and historically important child psychoanalyst. She is described in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as the greatest influence on British education in t

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- Damaged roots -- Our star student -- An academic marriage -- Finding a place on the couch -- The Malting House School: a dream becomes reality -- Rise and fall of the Malting House School -- Resurfacing -- Settled on the couch -- The wisdom of Ursula Wise -- Teaching the teachers -- Psycho-analysis in the 1930s: building up to war -- Battling for the minds of children -- Legacies

O autorze

Graham, Philip