Contents

Ivan Ward
Introduction

Anne-Marie Sandler
Nursery School - Why and When?

Tina Bruce
Principles of the Early Childhood Curriculum 

Adam Phillips
The-child-in-the-family-in-the-nursery 

Alice B. Colonna
Anna Freud and the Social-Moral Development of Young Children

Appendix
Anna Freud on Nursery Education 

Anna Freud was a pioneer in nursery education and child mental health. Building on her work, the papers in this book consider the educational, psychological and emotional factors which enter into the experience of nursery education.