Bringing the Froebel Approach to Your Early Years Practice

Bringing the Froebel Approach to Your Early Years Practice
Author: Helen Tovey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415567300

This work looks at the founder of the kindergarten and his profound influence on provision and practice for young children today. It looks at Froebel's theory of a garden for children and why he believed that play is central to young children's learning.

How Kindergarten Came to America

How Kindergarten Came to America
Author: Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Originally published as "Reminiscences of Friedrich Froebel," this enchanting 1894 account of the German inventor of kindergartens was instrumental in bringing kindergartens to the United States. This lively portrait of a pioneer of modern education is a refreshing reminder of the essential role of play and creative exploration in the development of children. Froebel's methods provide a much-needed antidote to the current emphasis on high-stakes testing and accelerated curricula--a corruption, as Herbert Kohl argues in his foreword, of the original concept of kindergartens as children's gardens of learning.

Friedrich Froebel

Friedrich Froebel
Author: Irene M. Lilley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1967-07-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 052105043X

This selection of Friedrich Froebel's work, shows the development of his educational doctrines, which mostly deals with young children.

Inventing Kindergarten

Inventing Kindergarten
Author: Norman Brosterman
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-04-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810990708

Inventing Kindergarten reconstructs the origins of the most successful system ever devised for teaching young children about art, design, mathematics, and natural history.

A Child's Work

A Child's Work
Author: Joachim Liebschner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Child psychology
ISBN: 9780718830687

This book considers Friedrich Froebel's work and ideas in the light of the continuing debate over methods of primary education, raising the old conflict between child-centred and traditional education; concern about the role of teacher in the classroom; and the renewed challenge of 'play' as a tool of education. To Froebel, play provided the means for a child's intellectual, social, emotional and physical development. Froebel believed that the education of a child began at birth, and that parents and teachers played a crucial role in helping children in this activity. 'Play is a mirror of life' - he wrote, leading to self discipline and respect for law and order. The events of Froebel's life are carefully documented in A Child's Work, together with their influence on his ideas and their spread. The author shows how the early death of Froebel's mother and a home lacking in love were to provide the impetus behind one of Froebel's overriding aims: the fostering of family life. The shaping of his educational thought and philosophy through contact with the ideas of other educators, especially his 'spiritual father' Pestalozzi, and philosophers such as Kant, Hegel and Krause, is examined. Froebel's continuous reassessment of the function of play in a child's life came to fruition in the concept of the Kindergarten and the creations with which he peopled it. Illustrations from original sources complement the thorough explanations of these educational innovations in the book. From the soft ball on a spring, the simplest of the Gifts, to the unravelling of more complex ideas in the Mother Songs, Froebel incorporated the various facets that he saw as important in play: the notion of the symbolic and the surmise, the tension between the known and the unknown, the development of physical dexterity and care for the environment. As we continue to shift towards an emphasis on a more formal, more restrictive and less creative mode of education, it is an appropriate time to re-examine Froebel's contribution to educational thinking, which was revolutionised by his ideas. His respect for a child as an independent, searching and creative person learning through his own actions, and for the teacher as facilitator and guide, led tomonumental changes. Froebelis legacy challenges us to examine the assumptions underlying current trends in education, and our attitude towards educating young children.