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American Institute of Child Life
An early 20th-century educational group, it published practical guides that encouraged parents and teachers to take children’s imagination, play, and development seriously. Its work reflects a period when child study and home education were becoming organized fields of interest.
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The dramatic instinct in children
by American Institute of Child Life
About the author
The American Institute of Child Life appears in early 1900s editions as a collective author and publisher, rather than a single named writer. Records for The Dramatic Instinct in Children list the institute as the creator, and Project Gutenberg gives its original publication as 1914 through The Abingdon Press.
Other surviving catalog records suggest the institute produced a broader series of child-development and home-education material around the same time. An Internet Archive record for The Education of the Child from One to Three describes it as prepared by the institute’s literary staff and published in Philadelphia in 1914, which helps show that this was an organized editorial body focused on guidance for families.
Because the institute was an organization, not an individual author, there does not seem to be a single standard portrait to use. What stands out instead is the voice of its publications: earnest, practical, and interested in how play, learning, and everyday home life shape a child’s growth.