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Vincent, and Edna Noble White were members( Osborn 1991). This committee held conferences in New York City in 1927 and Chicago in 1929( Osborn 1991). One of the group’ s most significant decisions was to establish a more formal organizational structure and to change its name to the National Association for Nursery Education( NANE). Dr. Stolz became its first president.
From its inception, NANE was multidisciplinary in nature and included nursery school teachers, home economists, psychologists, pediatricians, nurses, and social workers. Dr. George Stoddard remembered that
Dr. Lois Hayden Meek Stolz, NAEYC’ s first president.
[ I ] n the 1920s, NANE became one of the bonds that pulled ECE professionals together.... [ I ] t gave us all a sense of not only working in Iowa, or in New York, or in New Haven, or Chicago, or Stanford, or Minneapolis, but a sense of being together in a real educational movement.( Senn 1975, 3 – 4)
These actions fostered professional identity and strengthened collaboration and the sense of a national early education community.
In 1929, the new organization published Minimum Essentials for Nursery School Education( NANE 1929)“ to insure certain minimum standards in nursery schools and at the same time to protect the movement from becoming stereotyped and static”( NAEYC 2001, 90). It was followed in 1935 by a comprehensive bibliography( Lascarides & Hinitz 2011)“... complied to establish the history and initial development of the nursery school movement”( Davis 1964, 108). This forged a path of publishing resources that shaped and supported the profession’ s identity and practices.
1936 – 1945
NANE published this pamphlet to provide standards for nursery programs.
During the 1930s, NANE officers participated in the White House conference on child health and protection,“ which address [ ed ] issues of day care and reject [ ed ] any kind of major federal government role. The conference draft [ ed ]‘ The
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