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The leading English language online resource about the creator of Kindergarten presents source materials, a biographical timeline and secure online ordering of the original Froebel Gifts

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

" To Froebel belongs the credit for finding the true nature of play and regulating it to lead naturally into work.

The same spontaneity and joy, the same freedom and serenity that characterise the plays of childhood are realised in all human actiity.

The gifts and occupations are the living connection which makes both play and work expressions of the same creative activity. " W N Hailmann

Friedrich Froebel : His Life, Times and Significance

This book by Peter Weston for the general reader is an illustrated life of Friedrich Froebel that places him in the turbulent political and intellectual context of his times. It also identifies those aspects of his educational practice that are of enduring value in the contemporary world. ISBN 1 902743 25 3 second printing August 2000 Buy this book today

Dr Peter Weston is Pro-Rector Academic and Principal Froebel College, University of Surrey Roehampton.

Froebel College, Ireland

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Inventing Kindergarten uses extraordinary visual materials to reconstruct this successful system, to teach young children about art, design, mathematics, and nature read more

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