Discovering the history of early childhood education thus starts by travelling backwards to 17th century Europe and then summarising the contradictory mix of ideas concerning exploration, empire, education, 'Englishness' and evangelism legacies of the Age of Enlightenment that spilled into Great Britain and across educational and missionary ventures. Their combined intent was to
Discovering the history of early childhood education thus starts by travelling backwards to 17th century Europe and then summarising the contradictory mix of ideas concerning exploration, empire, education, 'Englishness' and evangelism legacies of the Age of Enlightenment that spilled into Great Britain and across educational and missionary ventures. Their combined intent was to