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Beatrice Eleanor Beeby (1904–1991) was a key figure in the establishment of the nursery playcentre movement in New Zealand, which developed into the present-day Playcentre organisation. == Early years == Beeby was born Beatrice Eleanor Newnham. Her father was a newspaper editor in Timaru, and her mother a schoolteacher. She met Clarence Beeby while they were students at Christchurch Training College. Beeby and Clarence were interested in drama and were foundation members of the Canterbury University College Drama Club.〔 Beeby acted in and directed the drama club's productions.〔 Beeby and Clarence studied Education under James Shelley, a newly arrived lecturer from England, and his ideas influenced them. Beeby passed her teaching examination in 1922 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Canterbury College in 1924. Beeby and Clarence were engaged that year, and Clarence moved to Manchester, England to study his doctoral degree. Beatrice did some teaching in Christchurch and followed later on, and they married in Manchester on 3 June 1926.〔 Beeby worked as a teacher of special needs students until she became pregnant and returned to New Zealand. Their first child, Helen, was born in 1927 in Christchurch,〔 six weeks after Clarence returned from England. While raising her young family in Christchurch, Beeby continued her interest in drama and joined the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society, which Shelley had founded in 1928. She directed and appeared in plays the group produced.〔 In 1932, Clarence and Beeby, together with some of Clarence's university students, set up a free play centre five mornings a week, with the goal of observing the behaviour of 5-year-old children for Clarence's research.〔 In 1934, the family moved to Wellington, where they settled in Karori. Clarence took up a new position at NZCER, the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Their second child, Christopher, was born in 1935. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beatrice Beeby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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