Background
Dorothy Cohen was born on January 28, 1915, in New York City.
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Bank Street College of Education that Dorothy Cohen attended from 1935 to 1936.
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The City College of New York where Dorothy Cohen received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935.
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Columbia University where Dorothy Cohen received her Master of Arts degree.
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New York University where Dorothy Cohen received her Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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The City College of New York where Dorothy Cohen received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935.
610 West 112th Street, New York, New York 10025, United States
Bank Street College of Education that Dorothy Cohen attended from 1935 to 1936.
116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
Columbia University where Dorothy Cohen received her Master of Arts degree.
New York, NY 10003, United States
New York University where Dorothy Cohen received her Doctor of Philosophy degree.
(Fresh information about how children think and learn, how...)
Fresh information about how children think and learn, how their language develops, and how their families, their culture, and their environment influence and help to shape them. Observations that reflect the increasingly diverse population in contemporary early childhood classrooms.
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1958
https://www.amazon.com/Kindergarten-Early-Schooling-Marguerita-Rudolph/dp/0135153387/?tag=2022091-20
1984
(Drawing on the findings of psychologists like Piaget, and...)
Drawing on the findings of psychologists like Piaget, and on her own experiences teaching child development at New York's Bank Street College, Cohen explores the crucial links between learning and the successive stages of childhood, and shows parents and teachers how to turn a child's natural instinct for inquiry into a talent for learning that will last a lifetime.
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Child-Guidelines-Education-Development/dp/0805208569/?tag=2022091-20
1988
Dorothy Cohen was born on January 28, 1915, in New York City.
Dorothy Cohen attended the City University of New York, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935. She also attended Bank Street College of Education from 1935 to 1936.
Later she studied at Columbia University and earned a Master of Arts degree in 1951. Then she attended New York University where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1966.
Dorothy Cohen started her career in 1937 as an Elementary school teacher in New York City and Brooklyn. In 1944 she became a director of early childhood education at an elementary school in New York City. She worked as a director until 1949, then she started to work at Rutgers University as a lecturer in education. She held this post until 1955. She also worked as an assistant professor of early childhood and elementary education at William Paterson College of New Jersey for four years. After that, she worked at Long Island University as an associate professor of education. Soon she returned to Bank Street College, where she had studied, as a member of the graduate faculty, advising, teaching, and writing until her death in 1979.
Dorothy Cohen also was a brilliant writer, whose books The Learning Child, Kindergarten and Early Schooling are classics in the fields of child development and education. She also wrote books with such writers as Virginia Stern and Marguerita Rudolph. She traveled widely in the United States and abroad and was a frequent public speaker on behalf of the political and social principles that were her life-long passion. She was a contributor to professional journals, including Elementary English and Young Children.
Dorothy Cohen was known as a brilliant teacher, a prolific writer, who was famous for her books The Learning Child, Kindergarten and Early Schooling.
Throughout her professional career Dorothy Cohen inspired and encouraged generations of graduate students, teachers, parents, daycare workers, and colleagues to participate with her in broadening the notion of education in order to safeguard the humanness of children.
(Drawing on the findings of psychologists like Piaget, and...)
1988(Fresh information about how children think and learn, how...)
1958Dorothy Cohen was a member of the International Society for Behavioral Science, National Association for the Education of Young Children, American Educational Research Association and Society for Research in Child Development.
Dorothy H. Cohen married in 1947. She had three children.
