Before Head Start

The Iowa Station and America's Children

By: Hamilton Cravens

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Paperback | 30 July 2002

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Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the child welfare movement that had originated as a moral reform effort in the Progressive era evolved into the science of child development. In Before Head Start, Hamilton Cravens chronicles this transformation, both on the national level and from the perspective of the field's best-known research center, the University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station. Addressing the changing role played by women and the importance of Rockefeller philanthropy, he shows how a women's reform movement became a male-dominated, conservative profession and demonstrates how lay pressure groups can influence the structures and processes of science. Animated by the reformist goals of the child welfare movement, scientists at the Iowa Station challenged the pervasive idea that an individual's development was determined by such group traits as race, class, and gender. Instead, their research suggested that early social intervention could rescue a child from a grim future. Cravens argues that this individualistic perspective, rejected in the 1940s by a scientific community that mirrored society's deterministic notions, anticipated the national social reforms of the post-1950s era, including Head Start.

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A well-written, insightful history of the origins and growth of the discipline of child development. ("Historian")
Satisfying in its detail, offering a rich and complex analysis of the theories and personalities of the nationally prominent child development researchers of the period.("Isis")
The definitive work on the origins of academic child development research in the United States. ("History of Education Quarterly")
This readable and painstakingly researched study will be welcomed by faculty and advanced students. ("Choice")
This solid, superior study of an important and misunderstood discipline is a major contribution to the history of science. ("American Historical Review")

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
A Problem of Definition	p. 6
The Big Money	p. 39
Inventing a Science	p. 72
Great Expectations	p. 106
The Science of Democracy	p. 151
Individualism Reconsidered	p. 185
The Perils of Professionalism	p. 217
Epilogue: Toward Head Start	p. 251
Note on Primary Sources	p. 263
Notes	p. 267
Index	p. 317
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Before Head Start

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