Elinor Goldschmied, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetElinor Goldschmied
British educationist
Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1910
Place of Birth: Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 27-Feb-2009
Profession: pedagogue
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Elinor Goldschmied
- Elinor Violet Goldschmied (née Sinnott; 15 December 1910 – 27 February 2009) was an English educationalist.
- Educated at the London School of Economics and qualified as a psychiatric social worker, she worked in an Italian state institution for illegitimate and abandoned children before moving to a home for single mothers in Milan, overseeing changes to the education of children and the training of staff, leading to a transformation of childcare in Italy.
- Goldschmied developed the concept of "heuristic play" as a means of relax play for babies under the age of two and for maintaining a special relationship with an individual member of staff.
- She also introduced a "treasure basket" containing non-dangerous household items in a low, open basket, an exploration task that was designed not to have any physical intervention from an overseeing adult.
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