On this day 230 years ago, Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel was born in Oberweisbach, Germany. As a child he spent a great deal of time playing alone in the woods behind his home and later he spent his teen years apprenticed to a forester, cataloging and surveying the Thuringian forests of south-eastern Germany. He attended [...]
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The Challenge of Froebel Teacher Training
By feadmin on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 | No Comments
A recent article by Barbara Beatty, professor of education at Wellesley College, highlights the challenges faced in training Froebel teachers a hundred years ago and the implications for training today’s early childhood teachers. Barbara Beatty’s history of early childhood, Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present is [...]
Read More...A Role for Women in the Froebel Kindergarten
By feadmin on Monday, June 27th, 2011 | No Comments
One of the great contributions of the Froebel Kindergarten was offering perhaps the first significant career for women outside the home (just as nursing was also getting started). In the mid 19th century, women were not expected (or even widely allowed) to work professionally. This meant a life of domestic work tethered to men (fathers, [...]
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