Susan Sutherland Fairhurst Isaacs

Susan Isaacs

24 featured booksSusan Isaacs

Susan Sutherland Isaacs, CBE (née Fairhurst; also known as Ursula Wise) was a Lancashire-born educational psychologist and psychoanalyst. She published studies on the intellectual and social development of children and promoted the nursery school movement. For Isaacs, the best way for children to learn was by developing their independence. She believed that the most effective way to achieve this was through play, and that the role of adults and early educators was to guide children's play. Between 1924 and 1927, she was the head of Malting House School in Cambridge, which is an experimental school founded by Geoffrey Pyke. The school fostered the individual development of children. In 1933, she became the first Head of the Child Development Department at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she established an advanced course in child development for teachers of young children. Between 1929 and 1940, she was an 'agony aunt' under the pseudonym of Ursula Wise, replying to readers' problems in several child care journals, notably The Nursery World and Home and School. Source: Wikipedia

Search this author Open first work

OL4357969A

Overview

Catalog identity and bibliographic footprint for this author.

24 representative editions

Author pages in Bookitis are intended to show only works actually attributed to the author and a representative edition for each of those works.

Catalog identity

How this author appears inside the active Bookitis catalog.

Display name
Susan Sutherland Fairhurst Isaacs
Personal name
Susan Isaacs
Source identifier
OL4357969A

Featured books

Representative editions for works actually authored by this person.

Works in catalog

Quick navigation into the work-level grouping pages behind the featured books.

As Husbands Go
Representative edition published 2010
Open Work
Intellectual Growth in Young Children
Representative edition published 1999
Open Work
Social Development in Young Children
Representative edition published 1999
Open Work
Social development in young children
Representative edition published 1972
Open Work
Childhood and after
Representative edition published 1970
Open Work
Children and parents
Representative edition published 1968
Open Work
Social development in young children
Representative edition published 1967
Open Work
Intellectual growth in young children
Representative edition published 1966
Open Work
The children we teach
Representative edition published 1954
Open Work
Troubles of children and parents
Representative edition published 1948
Open Work
Childhood & after
Representative edition published 1948
Open Work
The Cambridge evacuation survey
Representative edition published 1941
Open Work
The nursery years
Representative edition published 1932
Open Work
The nursery years
Representative edition published 1929
Open Work
An introduction to Psychology
Representative edition published 1921
Open Work
How to Organize Your Kid's Room
Representative edition published 1985
Open Work
The children we teach
Representative edition published 1971
Open Work
Intellectual growth in young children
Representative edition published 1970
Open Work
Troubles of Children and Parents
Representative edition published 1968
Open Work
The children we teach
Representative edition published 1965
Open Work
The psychological aspects of child development
Representative edition published 1963
Open Work
התפתחות חברתית של ילדים קטנים
Representative edition published 1963
Open Work
Tsemiḥah śikhlit shel yeladim ḳeṭanim
Representative edition published 1958
Open Work
Les premières années de l'enfant
Representative edition published 1955
Open Work