The Grandest Child Care Experiment in History and Bing Nursery School
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The United States had been at war for over a year in the spring of 1943 when Edith Dowley left her teaching post at the laboratory school of University of Michigan to head to Portland, Oregon. There, industrialist Henry Kaiser, the father of modern shipbuilding, had created two state-of-the-art Children's Centers to care for the offspring of the four thousand women workers responsible for producing the "bridge of ships" that carried troops, food, fuel, ammunition, and medicine to the fighting fronts. "I have never seen anything so remarkable," wrote one visitor of the centers. "They are so advanced they actually beggar description." By the end of the war in June 1945, the Kaiser Children's Centers had cared for 3,811 different children, freeing almost two million women work-hours, the equivalent required for the construction of six Liberty ships. On the day the war ended, the children and parents left and the day care centers were dismantled. But what Edith Dowley saw and learned there in her two years as a supervisor would give rise to a remarkable, magical center of excellence in the field of early childhood education -- Bing Nursery School.
Description
| Type of resource | moving image |
|---|---|
| Extent | 1 video file |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Sponsor | Stanford Historical Society |
|---|---|
| Speaker | VanDeVelde, Christine |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University |
|---|---|
| Genre | Lectures |
Bibliographic information
| Finding Aid | |
|---|---|
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ty318fb4803 |
| Location | SC0683 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford Historical Society program recordings, 1997-2022
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