Mary E. Hauser is Professor of Education in the Interdisciplinary Studies in Curriculum and Instruction Department at National-Louis University. She received her Ph.D. in educational psychology/early childhood from the University of California-Santa Barbara. Her research interests concentrate on the sociocultural context of education. The co-editor of Intersections: Feminisms/Early Childhoods (Peter Lang, 1998) and co-author of Personalizing Culture through Anthropological Perspectives (1999), Hauser is also the author of various book chapters and journal articles.

• List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Prologue – Introduction – Growing up in Fayetteville – Teachers College, New York: Formal Education Training – Living and Learning in Philadelphia – Greenwich Village: A New Philosophical Home – Defining and Enacting a Radical Educational Philosophy – Education Practices at the City and Country School – Caroline Pratt’s Influence in the Progressive – The Private Caroline Pratt – The Legacy of Caroline Pratt and the City and Country School – Appendix A: Methodology Notes – Appendix B: Publications of Caroline Pratt – Appendix C: Unit Blocks – Bibliography – Index.