| Description | Text of a recorded interview by J.C.Kenna with Miss Dorothy Ellen Marion Gardner, Department of Child Development, Institute of Education, University of London, on 25 October 1967 in which Miss Gardner speaks of the growth of her scientific interests, her professional career and the origin and growth of the Department. Together with related correspondence with Kenna concerning the interview.
Some of her reminiscences include names such as Dr Susan Isaacs, Sir Cyril Burt and Margaret MacMillan.
Handwritten notes by J.C.Kenna and some correspondence are also included. |
| AdminHistory | Dorothy Ellen Marion Gardner (1900-1992) had a long career as a nursery and primary school teacher, lecturer and researcher in education and child development.
She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College where she took a Froebel course in child development. After a short period of teaching in Edinburgh, Scotland she came to London and worked at the Rachel Macmillan Nursery School, the Norland Institute and the Francis Holland School in Baker Street. She was then appointed as a lecturer in infant and junior school education at Bishop Otter College, Chichester. She was among the first intake of students to the new Department of Child Development at the Institute of Education, University of London from 1934 to 1936 where she became a close personal friend of Susan Isaacs (1885-1948). She then moved to the City of Leeds Training College as a lecturer in methods of education before succeeding Susan Isaacs as Head of the Department of Child Development in London in 1943.
Dorothy Gardner lectured widely both in the United Kingdom and abroad and was vice-chairman of the Nursery Schools Association. Her publications included Testing Results in the Infant School (1942), Longer Term Results of Infant School Methods (1950), Education of Children Under Eight (1949), The Role of the Teacher in the Infant and Nursery School (1965) and Experiment and Tradition in Primary Schools (1966). Dorothy Gardner retired in 1968 and completed a biography of Susan Isaacs which was published in 1969. [Source Archives Hub] |
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