La educación pre-escolar en las escuelas publicas de Puerto Rico

Abstract

Since Puerto Rico had been obliged for financial reasons to concentrate on its general school system, preschool classes were not introduced till 1960. During the spring of that year, Senora Josefita Monserrate de Selles, consultant to the Government Department of Education, organized courses in kindergarten pedagogy. Then an experimental kindergarten pedagogy. Then an experimental kindergarten class was established. In 1961 further courses were given by Amy Hostler and Margaret Divine, both of U.S.A., who also visited the new kindergarten. It was a great loss when Senora Selles died in 1961, but the two American educators continued to visit Puerto Rico regularly, at least once per year, and co-operated with the preschool specialist at the University of Puerto Rico for further training of promising students. Every year groups of students also visited Mills College of Education (New York) for courses of three weeks.