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Wollons, Roberta Lyn was born on July 18, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Jack Wollons and Beatrice (Bortnick) Levine.
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Kindergartens and Cultures
(At the turn of the nineteenth century, the German kinderg...)
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the German kindergarten - banned by the Prussian government as revolutionary - spread rapidly to nations around the globe, becoming at once a local and modernising institution. This book is a collection of case studies that describe the remarkable diffusion, adoption, and transformation of the kindergarten in eleven modern and developing nations. The contributors to the volume examine the process by which the idea of the kindergarten arrived and was adopted in these countries - a process that invariably demonstrated the immense power of local cultures, whether Christian, Buddhist, or Islamic, to respond to and reformulate borrowed ideas. Borrowing cultures do not engage in passive mimicry, the studies show, but recast ideas for their own purposes. Beginning with Germany, the chapters of this book follow the kindergarten idea as it passed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the United States, then England, Australia, Japan, China, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, and Israel. The contributors examine such complex political, social, and cultural issues as the relationship of gender to national educational policies, the impact of missionary practices and other forms of colonialism on education, and class control over education within national contexts.
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Roberta Lyn Wollons
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Bachelor in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1970; Master of Arts in History of Education, University of Chicago, 1977; Doctor of Philosophy in History of Education, University of Chicago, 1983.
Career
Assistant professor American studies, Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1982-1991;
Fulbright visiting lecturer, Tohoku U., Sendai, Japan, 1986-1987;
associate professor, Indiana U., Gary, since 1995;
director women's studies, Indiana U., Gary, since 1997. Visiting professor Graduate Center for American Studies, Doshisha U., Kyoto, japan, 1991-1994. Visiting associate professor of University Maryland., College Park, 1994-1995.
Board directors KobeColl. Corporation, Chicago, since 1997, History of Education Society, since 1996. Consultant United States/Japan Ednl.
Exch., Washington, 1994. Director women's studies program, Indiana U. N.W., Gary, since 1997.
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Membership
Ngo participant United Nations 4th World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. Supervisor Advanced College Project, Wheeler H.S., since 1996. Member History of Education Society (board directors 1996), American Education Research Association (program chair 1989-1991), Organisation of America Historians, American Studies Association.
