Fröbel's Pedagogy of Kindergarten and Play: Modifications in Germany and the United States

ISBN-13: 9781032238555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 222 str.

Helge Wasmuth

Opis

This text provides a comprehensive analysis of historical archives, letters, and primary sources to offer unique insight into how Fröbel’s pedagogy of kindergarten and play has been understood, interpreted, and modified throughout history and in particular, as a consequence of it’s adoption in the US.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Friedrich Fröbel and his pedagogy of kindergarten and play

Chapter 1: Friedrich Fröbel on his way of becoming an educator of young children

Chapter 2: The Invention of Kindergarten

Chapter 3: The Challenge of Finding the "Authentic" Fröbel and Translating his Work

Chapter 4: Fröbel’s worldview and his pedagogy of kindergarten and play

Part II: The Fröbelianer and their modification of Fröbel’s pedagogy of kindergarten and play

Chapter 5: The organizational development of the Fröbel movement

Chapter 6: The evolution of Fröbel’s pedagogy of kindergarten and play

Part III: How kindergarten came to the United States

Chapter 7: The kindergarten movement in the US and the openness to Fröbel

Chapter 8: The transfer of Fröbel’s pedagogy of kindergarten and play to the US

Chapter 9: Conclusion: The history of Fröbel’s pedagogy of kindergarten and play and its modification

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O autorze

Helge Wasmuth is Associate Professor in the Department of Childhood Education at Mercy College, USA.