Susan Sutherland Isaacs
Lancashire-born educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (1885-1948) · United Kingdom · Educators · Died at 63
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Something wrong?Susan Sutherland Isaacs, CBE was an English 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.
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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.
