Dorothy W. Hewes, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus)
Department of Child and Family Development
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-4502
(619) 594-4445
or (619) 469-2563

Academic Disciplines:

Policy analysis and management of early childhood centers and family support programs. History of educational philosophies and administrative systems.

Education:

  • Ph.D. 1974 Early Childhood Education and Historiography, Union of Experimenting Colleges and Universities, Antioch College (now in Cincinnati, Ohio)
    Dissertation: W. N. Hailmann: Defender of Froebel
  • M.A.1969 Psychological and Philosophical Foundations of Education, California State University at Northridge, California
  • 1950-52 Child Development, Mills College, Oakland, California
  • 1945-47 Child Develoloptnent (Joint doctoral program, Home Economics and Psychology), University of California at Berkeley, California
  • B.S. 1943 Institution Management, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa
  • Employment:

  • 1992 to date Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University
  • 1974 to 1992 Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, San Diego State University
  • 1972 to 1974 Adjunct Lecturer, developed Early Childhood Education Department at new California State College, Bakersfield
  • 1965-1972 Instructor, Early Childhood Education, University of California Extension
  • 1963-1964 Associate, Mendota Research Group
  • 1953-1972 Director/Teacher, Bakersfield Play Center, Cooperative Nursery School
  • 1952-1956 Parent Education Teacher, Kern Union High School,
  • 1950-1952 Parent Education Teacher, Oakland Adult School,
  • 1948-1950 Teacher, Richmond Child Care Center
  • 1947-1948 Head Teacher, Monterey Child Care Center
  • 1943 to 1945 Staff Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps (WR)
  • Awards and Honors:

    "Special Commendation" awarded at Annual Conference, California Association for the Education of Young Children, 2001.
    "Dorothy Hewes Graduate Award" initiated by San Diego Association for the Education of Young Children, 2000.
    Leadership Award, Parent Cooperative Preschools International (May 3, 1999).
    World Who's Who of Women, Dictionary of International Biography. Who's Who in the West
    One of 30 "key people who have shaped early childhood education in the 20th century" as selected by the readers of Exchange in 1995. Cited as a "guru" working to "professionalize center administration" and for writing "the first books and articles to focus in-depth attention on the work of center directors."
     
    Outstanding Professor, School of Family Studies, San Diego State University, May 1993
     
    Maharishi Award from the World Government of the Age of Enlightenment for "Creativity and success in life, demonstrating the potential inherent in every individual," June 1982
     
    Honorary Life Membership, California Council of Parent Participation Nursery Schools, 1977
     
    Meritorious Teaching Award from National Council for Geographic Education, 1974
     
    'Woman of the Year' for California National Organization of Women (NOW), 1974
     
    Honorary membership in Phi Beta Delta (educational fraternity)
     
    Charter membership in Delta Phi Upsilon (fraternity of international scholars)

    Books:

    W. N. Hailmann: Defender of Froebel, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Frobel Foundation, 2001.

    It's the Camaraderie: A History of Parent Participation Preschools. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

    Early Childhood Education: A Workbook for Administrators, with Barbara Hartman. Saratoga, CA: R & E Publishers, 1972, 19175, 1979, 1988 (5th Edition planned for 1997)

    Administration: Making Programs Work for Children and Families. Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1979

    Book Chapters:

    "Looking back: How the role of director has been understood, studied, and utilized in ECE programs, policy, and practice" in M. L. Culkin (ed.)., Managing Quality in Children's Programs: The Leader's Role, New York: Teacher's College Press, 2000.

    "Preface" for C. Lescarides and B. Hinitz, The History of Early Childhood Education: A Reference and Resource Guide, New York: Falmer Press, 2000.

    "When shaming fingers point" in The Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations. B. and R. Neugebauer, eds. Redmond, WA: Exchange Press, 1998.

    "Sisterhood and Sentimentality" (first published in Exchange, November 1995), in K.M. Pgciorek, Ed., Annual Editions: Early Childhood Education, Guilford, CT: Dushkin, 1996

    "On doing history" in A. Gordon and K.W. Browne, Beginnings and Beyond, Albany, NY: Delmar, 1993

    "Foundations of early childhood teacher training" in B. Spociek and 0. Saracho, Yearbook in Early Childhood Teacher Education. Vol. 1. New York: Teacher's College Press, 1991

    "Kindergarten teacher training in the United States from 1870 to 1920" in M. Ojaia, editor, The Social Role and Evolution of the Teaching Profession in Historical Context. University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland, 1988

    "Depuis les "Dames en epis de mais"jusqu 'aux "Bebe-chouz." La commercialisation des poupees americaines" in E. Plaisance and J. Contou, eds. Jouet et Jeu dans I'Histoire de I'Education de las Petite Enfance. Universite Rene Descartes (Paris), 1987

    "The Kindergarten as an assimilation program for immigrants to the United States, 1880 to 1900" in 0. Viig, editor, Historia Infantia - International History of Early Childhood Education, Eotvos University, Budapest, 1986

    "Historical precedents for day care" in S. A. Auerbach, editor, Rational for Day Care Services: Programs vs. Politics. New York: Human Sciences Press, 1976

    Articles in Periodicals:

    "Sisterhood and sentimentality - America's earliest child care centers" in Child Care Information Exchange, Issue no. 106 1995*

    "TQ What?" in Child Care Information Exchange, Issue no. 98 (July/August 1994)*

    "Knowledge base in early childhood education: Past sources, present sources, and future prospects" in Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 12:37, Winter 1991

    "When shaming fingers point - Dealing with negative publicity" in Child Care Information Exchange, Issue no. 67, 1989

    "Evolution of the teaching profession in historical context" in International Journal of Early Childhood, 21:1, l989

    "Locus of Control - An historical perspective" in Delta Phi Upsilon Annual Review, 1989

    "A history of early childhood lab schools" in National Organisation of Child Development Laboratory Schools Quarterly, installments in Fall, Winter, and Spring issues, 1987-88

    "More on early child history" in International Journal of Early Childhood, 17:1, 1985

    "From home to worksite: New arenas for home economics" in Journal of Home Economics, 76:3, 1984

    "Pruning your grapevines - Dealing with rumors and gossip" in Childcare Information Exchange, Issue no. 37, 1983

    "Employer-sponsored day care: A Kuhnian perspective" in Early Childhood Development and Care, Vol. 10, 1982

    "Preschool geography: Developing a sense of self in time and space" in Journal of Geography, 81:3, 1982

    'Those first good years of Indian education,, in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 5:3, 1981*

    "On Utopias, 1985, and HEWDCR" in CPECE Quarterly Review, 6:2,1979

    "Speculations on a conversation between Piaget and Froebel" in Delta Phi Upsilon Quarterly, Winter 1979

    "NAEYC's first half century - 1926-1976" in Young Children, 31:3, 1976.* Reprinted as booklet by National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, D.C., 1977, revised and reprinted 1996 and 2001.

    "Patty Smith Hill: Pioneer for young children" in Young Children, Vol 31:4, 1976*

    Miscellaneous Publications:

    Editor of NA-IYF Networker, newsletter of the North American Committee for the United Nations International Year of the Family, 1994.

    Biographical sketches of Susan Blow, Eudora Hailmann, William Hailmann, Emma Marwedel, and organizational histories of the IKU Committee of Nineteen and the National Association of Nursery Education in Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education, L.R. Williams and D.P. Fromberg (eds.), New Yoik and London: Garland, 1992.

    "Introducing Young Children to the Globe" in S. Hopkins and J. Winters, eds., Discover the World. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1990

    "Staffing Your Program: Suggestions for Directors" in a 1981 series of Resource Reports published by World Book-Childcraft International, Chicago.

    "Once more with feeling" series of historical vignettes in Young Children, 31:1-6, 1976

    Recent book reviews include B. Peltman, "Pioneers in Early Childhhod Education" in Journal of Early Ghildhood Education 20:4, 1999.

    H. Kohl, "The Discipline of Hope" in History of Education Quarterly 39:1, 1999.

    N. Brosterman, "Inventing Kindergarten" in International Journal of Early Education 30:1, 1998.

    G. Youcha, "Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present" in Young Children, 51:3, 1996

    Book review of Mindinie the Children - Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present in Young Children, 51:3, 1996. Countless other book reviews in The Review of Education, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Women's Times, Young Children, History of Education Quarterly, International Journal of Early Education, and others.

    Editorial comments or columns in Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Exchange, Young Children, many regional and national publications.

    First published work was a 1930 book review on the children's page of the Mian (IL) Independent. Early writings included a weekly "What's Cookin" column in the Richmond (CA) Independent in 1946 and local radio and television programs during the 1960s. Since then, an estimated 150 to 200 "items" related to preschool administration, parent education, curriculum, and history of educational systems have been published in professional association bulletins, newsletters and other periodicals.

    Grants:

    1996 Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, "Corporate support for families: Two decades in San Diego"

    1994 Center for Cooperatives, University of California at Davis, "History of parent participation preschools"

    1991 Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, "Employer based family support services in San Diego"

    1988 Consortium for International Cooperation in Higher Education, "Early childhood program administrators and parents from Third World Countries"* for production of "Linkages' videotape and classroom materials. Videotape selected for showing at NAEYC conference, November 1988

    1986 National Association for the Education of Young Children, "Employer-sponsored child care: A re-assessment of local potential"

    1983 California Home Economics Association, Symposium on "Employers and families Strategies for mutual benefit"*

    1981 National Association for the Education of Young Children, "Employer-sponsored child care: An assessment of local potential"

    National / International Presentations (1976-1996):

    "A genealogy of early childhood associations - 1872-1972" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Dallas, November 1996

    "A visual retrospective of early childhood education over the past millenium" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Atlanta, 2000.

    "Toronto's first United Satates-Canadian early childhood conference, 1891" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Toronto, 1998.

    "Fallacies, phantasies and egregious prevarications in early childhood history" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Anaheim, 1997.

    'The changing role of fathers in co-op nursery schools" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, D.C., December 1995.*

    "Do parent co-op preschools float on Kondratieff's economic waves?" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Atlanta, December 1994.*

    "Katherine Tingley and the American Theosophical Association" at the Western Association of Women Historians, San Marino, May 1993.

    "Family roles in America's Utopian Communities - 1820s to the 1940s" at International Working Group for the History of Early Childhood Education, Sopron, Hungary, September 1993 *

    "Pestalozzi: Foster father of early childhood education" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, New Orleans, November 1992 *

    "Discipline in the Victorian Kindergarten" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Denver, November 1991.*

    "Intemal-Extemal control as an articulating factor in early childhood history" at International Working Group for the History of Early Childhood Education, Zurich, Switzerland,August 1991 *

    "After Piaget: Who?/What?/Why?" at National Association for Early Childhood Teacher Education, Washington, D.C.,November 1990

    "The egalitarian marriages of six educational leaders in late 19th Century America" at Western Association of Women Historians, San Marino, May 1990

    "Early childhood education commercial exhibit controversies" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, D.C. November 1990

    "American Froebelians and their understanding of Comenius" at International Conference for the History of Education, Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 1990*

    "Public funds vs. private charity: America's Puritan heritage" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Atlanta, November 1989

    "Meta-cognition: How children perceive their own learning" at National Organization of Child Development Laboratory Schools, Atlanta, November 1989

    "Entrance age to public education in the United States, 1642-1842" at International Conference for the History of Education, Oslo, Norway, August 1989*

    "Organic education in the public schools of late nineteenth century America" at International Conference for the History of Education, Joensuu, Finland, July 1988*

    "Nisei Nursery: Preschool at Manzanar Relocation Camp" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, November 1988

    "Linkages - Early childhood program directors and Third World Families" at National Association for the Education of Young Children, Anaheim, November 1988

    "Young children in public schools - Lessons from the 1890s" at National Association for the Education of Young Children, Chicago, November 1987

    "Children's garments - A psycho-historical perspective" at American Home Economics Association, San Diego, March 1987

    "Historical archives - How to establish, find, use, and maintain them" at History Seminar, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Detroit, November 1986

    "From swaddling bands to designer jeans: Children's clothing as an indicator of parental attitudes" at Western Association of Women Historians, San Marino, May 1986

    "From Cornhusk Ladies to Cabbage Patch Kids: The commercialization of American dolls" at International Conference for the History of Education, Paris, France, March 1986

    "From home to worksite - A new interface for Home Economics" at American Home Economics Association, Anaheim, June 1984

    "Will the real Montessori please stand up?" at National Association for the Education of Young Children, Los Angeles, November 1984

    "Doing history as a teaching technique" at National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, D.C., November 1982

    "The preoperational child in a topological environment: What Piagetian theory can show us" at International Interdisciplinary Conference on Piagetian Theory and the Helping Professions, Los Angeles, January 1981

    "Application of business management principles to ECE program administration" at National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators, Detroit, November 1981

    "The Froebelian Kindergarten as an international movement" at International Congress on Early Childhood Education, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 1980

    "Administrivia - Time management for directors" at National Association for the Education of Young Children, November 1980

    "The co-op tradition and its implementation" at Parent Cooperative Preschools International, Los Angeles, March 1977

    "Personal geography -Discovery of a sense of self in time and space" at National Council for Geographic Education, San Francisco, November 1976

    "Two centuries of American childhood" at National Association for the Education of Young Children, Los Angeles, November 1976

    "Semiotic Function in the Toddler" at International Interdisciplinary Conference on Piaget and the Helping Professions, Los Angeles, January 1976

    Present refereed paper or coordinate workshop session annually for California Association for the Education of Young Children and also for its San Diego affiliate. Participate frequently in research reports, poster sessions or round table discussions for National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators, National Association of Campus Laboratory Schools, and other organizations.

    Selected Invited Presentations

    "Using the Past to Predict the Future" at Employer-Assisted Day Care Symposium, annual conference of California Council of Parent Participating Nursery Schools, April 26, 1996. (At conclusion, was asked to be their keynote speaker for 1997 conference.) "Early Childhood Education: Its historic past and promising future" at ECE Graduation Celebration, CSU Long Beach, May 1995.*

    "The History and future of play in early childhood education" as Plenary Sessions, International Association for the Study of Play, San Diego, 2001.

    "California's cooperative nursery schools: Perspectives from the past": as keynote address, Annual Convention of Parent Participation Nursery Schools, San Mateo, 1997.

    "Catching the curl: Kondratieffs economic wave theory and reaching Goal 2000" at annual conference, Association for Childhood Education International, San Diego, April 1991

    "How we got here - A history of dependent care" at California Association of Parks and Recreation, San Diego, Match 1990

    "A global overview of early childhood environments" at International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, Atlanta, November 1989

    "Building Strengths as a child care consultant" at Child Care Management Consultants Assn., Anaheim, November 1988

    "Decision-making for directors" at Professional Association for Childhood Education, San Diego, March 1988

    "History of research in child development laboratory schools" at National Organization of Child Development Laboratory Schools, Anaheim, November 1988

    "Parental input into administrative decision processing" for ADAPT (Head Start) Regional Training Conference, October 1985

    "Childcare yesterday, today, and tomorrow" as keynote opening address for Coalition of Ubor Union Women, San Diego, July 1985

    "Looking backward to predict the future of Head Start" as keynote opening address for Regional Head Start Training Conference, San Diego, November 1984

    "Education for Equal Rights - The promises and the reality" for UCSD Colloquium Series, Origins of the Sexual Revolution, May 1978

    *Indicates publication in paper, microfiche, CD-ROM by ERIC EECE

    Primary Professional Affiliations:

    Organisation Mondiale pour I'Education Prescolaire (OMEP) - Program Chair of 1992 World Congress, Member U.S. National Committee, 1992 to date.

    Social Science History Association, American History of Education Society, International Standing Working Group for History of Education, Western Association of Women Historians

    Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (American Psychological Association Division 9). Received Honorary Life Membership in 1992.

    National Association of Early Childhood Educators. Charter Member, Board of Directors, 1978-1981.

    California Professors of Early Childhood Education and Child Development, Member of Organizing Committee, 1973-1975, Legislative Representative 1975-1980, Liaison to California Council on Education of Teachers, 1977-1982.

    National Association for the Education of Young Children - Vice-President 1977 -1980. Chaired History and Archives Committee 1971 -1977 and 1977 -1992, Coordinator of annual History Seminar, 1977 to date. Served on several commissions and task forces for accreditation and other regulatory functions and on editorial boards of Early Childhood Research Review (2001-2003) and Young Children.

    California Association for the Education of Young Children. Elected member, Board of Directors, 1975-1979, Secretary 1973-1975, Chair, Public Affairs Committee 1971-1973

    San Diego Association for the Education of Young Children. Member Board of Directors, Historian, 1975 to date.

    International Professional Service:

    Represented United States on International Working Group for the Comparative History of Early Childhood Education, University of Paris

    Member of International Network for a Chronology on the History of Education, headquartered at Eotvos University, Budapest

    Statewide University Service:

    Invited member of CSU Chancellor's Task Force on Campus Child Care, 1986-87

    One of eleven representatives of CSU faculty preparing guidelines for Specialist in Early Childhood Education Credential, accepted in March 1974 by Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing

    Wrote "Regulations Relating to HERO Child Care Occupation Programs" for Child Care Occupations, California State Department of Education, 1986

    San Diego State University Service:

    Departmental Representative to Library, 1975 to 1999
    Faculty Representative to Associated Students Children's Center, 1977 to date
    Advisory Committee Liaison with San Diego Community Colleges, 1977 to 1985

    Current Community Service:

    Docent, Mingei International Folk Art Museum
    Women's History Reclaimation Project
    Work and Family Coalition
    AARP VOTE, Intergenerational Coordinator
    Pro bono consultation for agencies and preschool centers

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