Free Books about Friedrich Froebel and His Kindergarten Education Method
Google has archived many of the classic texts on the Froebel Kindergarten and made them available for free in PDF form. If you're a researcher or just interested in learning more about the Froebel Kindergarten method, the history of the Kindergaten, or related subjects, then here is your recommended reading list:
The Education of Man[aka Die Menschenerziehung] by Friedrich Fröbel (edited/translated by William Nicholas Hailmann)
The Pedagogics of the Kindergarten by Friedrich Fröbel edited/translated by Josephine Jarvis
The Kindergarten Building Gifts by Elizabeth Harrison & Belle Woodson
The Kindergarten Guide: vol. 1 - The Gifts by Maria Kraus-Boelte & John Kraus
The Republic of Childhood vol 1: Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith
The Republic of Childhood vol 2: Froebel's Occupations by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora A. Smith
The Paradise of Childhood by Edward Wiebe
Friedrich Froebel: His Life & Times by Dr. Peter Weston
Froebel's Educational Laws for All Teachers by James L. Hughes
Symbolic Education by Susan Blow
Letters to a Mother on the Philosophy of Froebel by Susan Blow
Educational Issues in the Kindergarten by Susan Blow
The Songs & Music of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play (Mutter und kose Lieder) by Friedrich Fröbel, translated by Susan Blow
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel by Friedrich Fröbel, ed./trans. by Emilie Michaelis & Henry Keatley Moore
Third & Last Volume of Friedrich Froebel's Pedagogics of the Kindergarten by Josephine Jarvis
Daily Program of Gift & Occupation Work by Carolyn S. Bailey, Clara M. Lewis
Froebel's Chief Writings on Education by Friedrich Fröbel ed./trans. by Samuel Sigmund Fechheimer Fletcher, James Welton
Home Occupations for Boys and Girls by Bertha Johnston & Fanny Chapin
Froebel as a Pioneer in Modern Psychology by Elsie Riach Murray
Papers on Froebel's Kindergarten by Dr. Henry Barnard
Kindergarten and Child Culture Papers by Dr. Henry Barnard
The Psychology of Froebel's Play-Gifts by Denton J. Snider
The Life of Friedrich Fröbel by Denton J. Snider
The Life of the Baroness von Marenholtz-Bulow by Bertha Bülow-Wendhausen
The Evolution of the Nursery-infant School: a History of Infant and Nursery by Nanette Whitbread
The Kindergarten: Reports of the Committee of Nineteen on the Theory & Practice of the Kindergarten by the International Kindergarten Union Committee of Nineteen
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