Friedrich Froebel
Life Span: 1782-1852
Birthday: April
21, 1782
Birthplace: Oberweissbach,
Thuringia, Ernestine Saxony [now in Germany]
Died: June 21, 1852 near Bad
Liebenstein, Thuringia [now in Germany] |
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Interesting
Facts About Friedrich Froebel: |
- Studied minerology in Jena.
- Took over the education of his brother's
children after his brother's death. He was inspired by their
play habits.
- Inventor of the Kindergarten
System. It was to be a place where children could explore their
creativity to its maximum under the guidance and watchful eye of a
trained adult.
- Developed several educational games (Froebels
"occupatiosn") and toys (Froebel's "gifts") for
children.
- In 1851, on year before Froebel's death,
the Prussian government ordered the closure of all kindergartens
because they were afraid that the kindergartens were breeding grounds
for political revolution.
Concepts:
- He believed in the use of play in
education because it is a creative activity that children could use to
learn about the world in relation to themselves.
- The concept of "Unity" drove
Froebel's work.
- Froebel thought that the link between
mother and child was very important in education, so he started
training courses on the process of educating a child for female
"kindergartners."
Quotes:
"The purpose of education is to
encourage and guide man as a conscious, thinking and perceiving being in
such a way that he becomes a pure and perfect representation of that
divine inner law through his own personal choice; education must show him
the ways and meanings of attaining that goal." (Friedrich Froebel
1826 Die Nenschenerziehung, pp. 2)
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