Linda Pound works as an independent Educational Consultant and is the author of Supporting Mathematical Development in the Early Years and Leadership & Management in the Early Years (with Caroline Jones).

• IntroductionPart 1 Thinking about early childhood in the nineteenth centuryRobert Owen (1771-1858)Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)Part 2 Progressive ideas of the twentieth centuryMargaret McMillan (1860-1931)Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)Maria Montessori (1870-1952)Susan Isaacs (1885-1948)Part 3 Psychoanalytic theories and their impactSigmund Freud (1856-1939) and psychoanalytic theoriesChild-focused psychodynamic theories John Bowlby (1907-1990) and theories of attachmentEmotions and learning Part 4Constructivism and behaviourismBurrhus Skinner (1904-1990), behaviourist theories and approachesJean Piaget(1896-1980) and constructivismLev Vygotsky (1896-1934) and social constructivismPart 5Challenging theories and practiceDe(constructing) schoolingDeconstructing early childhoodDeconstructing developmentPart 6Weighing up the evidence?Final thoughtsReferences

Linda Pound works as an independent Educational Consultant and is the author of Supporting Mathematical Development in the Early Years and Leadership & Management in the Early Years (with Caroline Jones).

• IntroductionPart 1 Thinking about early childhood in the nineteenth centuryRobert Owen (1771-1858)Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)Part 2 Progressive ideas of the twentieth centuryMargaret McMillan (1860-1931)Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)Maria Montessori (1870-1952)Susan Isaacs (1885-1948)Part 3 Psychoanalytic theories and their impactSigmund Freud (1856-1939) and psychoanalytic theoriesChild-focused psychodynamic theories John Bowlby (1907-1990) and theories of attachmentEmotions and learning Part 4Constructivism and behaviourismBurrhus Skinner (1904-1990), behaviourist theories and approachesJean Piaget(1896-1980) and constructivismLev Vygotsky (1896-1934) and social constructivismPart 5Challenging theories and practiceDe(constructing) schoolingDeconstructing early childhoodDeconstructing developmentPart 6Weighing up the evidence?Final thoughtsReferences

Linda Pound works as an independent Educational Consultant and is the author of Supporting Mathematical Development in the Early Years and Leadership & Management in the Early Years (with Caroline Jones).

• IntroductionPart 1 Thinking about early childhood in the nineteenth centuryRobert Owen (1771-1858)Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)Part 2 Progressive ideas of the twentieth centuryMargaret McMillan (1860-1931)Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)Maria Montessori (1870-1952)Susan Isaacs (1885-1948)Part 3 Psychoanalytic theories and their impactSigmund Freud (1856-1939) and psychoanalytic theoriesChild-focused psychodynamic theories John Bowlby (1907-1990) and theories of attachmentEmotions and learning Part 4Constructivism and behaviourismBurrhus Skinner (1904-1990), behaviourist theories and approachesJean Piaget(1896-1980) and constructivismLev Vygotsky (1896-1934) and social constructivismPart 5Challenging theories and practiceDe(constructing) schoolingDeconstructing early childhoodDeconstructing developmentPart 6Weighing up the evidence?Final thoughtsReferences