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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..
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Heian's origami fairy tale series is now in a beautifully designed gift pack, including: * four books * 60 sheets of colorful, non-toxic origami paper Each book tells a story and demonstrates how to create six origami figures from the featured fairy tale: * Goldilocks & the Three Bears * Hansel & Gretel * Little Red Riding Hood * Snow White This is a classic book collection and origami craft kit all in one, for hours of creative storytime play, and making reading fun even for the youngest readers..
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Based on his important autobiographical "Letter to the Duke of Meiningen", this is the life of the founder of the 'Kindergarten'..
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An in-depth guide to the use of the Froebel Gifts 2-6 -- part of the original kindergarten toys developed by Friedrich Froebel, inventor of kindergarten. The booklet discusses the history, philosophy, and "play" properties of these famous toys. This booklet accompanies the Froebel Gifts 2-6 set made by Uncle Goose Toys. This 2nd edition includes new material not available in the original 1997 version. .
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FROEBEL'S GIFTS BY FATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NCRA ARCHIBALD The i rue teacher is a student of human nature, and the student of human nature is the pupil of God. HORATIO STEEBINS BOSTON AND NEW YORK EOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY PEEPACE THE tliree little volumes on tLat Republic of Childhood, the kindergarten, of which this hand book, dealing with the gifts, forms the initial number, might well be called Chips from a Kin dergarten Workshop. They are the outcome of talks and conferences on Froebels educational principles with successive groups of earnest young women here, there, and everywhere, for fifteen years, and represent as much practical work at the bench as a carpenter could show in a similar length of time. They are the result of mutual give and take, of question and answer, of effort and experience, of the friction of minds against one another, of ideas struck out in the heat of argument, and of varied experience with many hundred little children of all nationalities and conditions. They are not theories, written in the seclusion of the study and if perchance they have the defects, so should they have the virtues, vi PREFACE too, of work corrected and revised at every step by the child in the midst. If It is objected that many things in them have been heard before, we can but say with Montaigne Truth and reason are common to every one, and are no more his who spake them first than his who spake them after. The various talks have been cut down here, enlarged there, condensed in one place, amplified in another, from year to year, as knowledge and experience have grown many of the ideas which they advocated in the beginning have been elimi nated, as being completely reversed by the passage of time, and much new matter has been added as the kindergarten principle has developed. They are as much a growth as a coral reef, though the authors have little hope that they will be as enduring. The kindergarten of 1895 is not the kinder garten of 1880, for the science of education has made great strides in these past fifteen years. Many things which were held to be vital principles when we began our talks with kindergarten students, we now find were but lifeless methods after all. It is not that time has reversed the fundamental principles on which the kindergarten PBJSFACE vii rests, these are as true as trutli and as change less but the Interpretation of them has greatly changed and broadened with the passage of years, and many of the instrumentalities of education which Froebel devised are destined to further transformation in the future. For this reason, the last book on the kindergarten is sometimes the best book, since it naturally embodies the latest thought and discovery on the subject. These talks on the kindergarten have purposely been divested of a certain amount of technicality and detail, in the hope that they will thus reach not only kindergarten students, but the many mothers and teachers who really long to know what Froebels system of education is and what it aims to do. They will never of themselves make a kindergartner, and are not intended to do so but they certainly should shed some light on Froebel s theories, and establish a basis on which they can be worked out in the home and in the school. We shall attempt no defense of the kindergar ten here. It has passed the experimental stage It is no longer on trial for its life and no longer humbly begging, hat in hand, for a place to lay its head. As an educational idea, it is a recog viii PREFACE nized part of the great system of child-training and to say, in this year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, that one does not believe in the kindergarten is as if one said, I do not believe in electricity, or, I never saw much force in the law of gravitation....
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