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Pauline Agassiz Shaw (February 6, 1841 – February 10, 1917) was an American philanthropist and social reformer who opened day nurseries, settlement houses, and other establishments in Boston to help new immigrants and the poor.
Pauline Agassiz Shaw is responsible for institutionalizing kindergartens in the Boston Public Schools. While Elizabeth Peabody first introduced Freidrich Fröebel’s German philosophy of “kindergartens” to Boston, Pauline Shaw funded fourteen kindergartens in Boston during the 1880s.
This article describes the life and contributions of Pauline Agassiz Shaw, who pioneered the public kindergarten movement in the United States and was an activist for many social causes, including women's suffrage, prison reform, and world peace.
Swiss-American philanthropist and advocate of early childhood education. Born Pauline Agassiz on February 6, 1841, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland; died of bronchial pneumonia on February 10, 1917, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; daughter of Louis Agassiz (the naturalist) and Cécile (Braun) Agassiz; stepdaughter of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz; educated ...
31 de jan. de 2020 · Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917) was the Swiss-born daughter of the Harvard naturalist Louis Agassiz and Cecile (Braun) Agassiz. After the death of her mother, in 1850 Louis married Pauline’s stepmother, Elizabeth Carey Agassiz, later the founding president of Radcliffe College.
12 de out. de 2021 · Learn how Boston social reformer Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841-1917) used her wealth to pay for a vast number of philanthropic efforts including: financing the first public kindergartens in America, lobbying for both prison reform and world peace, participating in the woman suffrage movement and founding day nurseries and neighborhood ...
31 de jan. de 2020 · Every February, we hold an annual celebration of the School’s visionary founder, Pauline Agassiz Shaw. We share the history, stories, and images of over 140 years at America’s first trade school, while celebrating the individual stories of our community of makers, builders, and craftspeople.
