A historical perspective can reinforce our principles and understanding of developmentally appropriate practice with an informed underpinning. With this in mind we have chosen to reflect on Susan Isaacs.
Susan Sutherland Fairhurst was born in Bolton on 24 May 1885. Her mother died when she was six and when her father then married the nurse who had cared for her mother, Susan became alienated from him.
Her unhappy childhood was further damaged by – the by now 15-year-old - Susan declaring she was agnostic, resulting in her father removing her from secondary school and keeping her at home. Aged 22 she began a career to train as an infant school teacher at Manchester University. Here she thrived and ultimately graduated with a first class degree in philosophy in 1912.
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