What is Frobelian teaching?

Question

I've just read an article on 'Earth Mothers' one of the interviewies mentioned that her child was going to a school where there was 'frobelian teaching'. I've looked this up on internet and can find nothing but very expensive book lists. Can anyone help me shed more light on what frobelian teaching is, or the 'Frobelian experiment'? Thank you.

Answer 1

Friedrich Froebel [1782-1852] is best known as the father of the kindergarten system, which he also named. His own childhood was difficult; his mother died when he was a baby and he was raised by his strict Lutheran minister father. At 17. as an apprenticed forester he decided plants and animals were better treated than children. Froebel was then exposed to two important educators, Johann Pestalozzi [active, hands on educational activities] and Christian Weiss [geometric symmetries, chemical composition]. Froebel established first an elementary school and then a kindergarten with the goal of leading children to a UNITY with themselves. As important as Froebel was to education, he was equally important to the worlds of art and architecture.

In the 1840s, Froebel designed 20 sets of geometric toys gifts as merely a small part of his educational system. These included the following gifts: 2-6. blocks, 8. stick work, 9. rings, 10. net drawing exercises, 14. paper weaving, 15. slat work, 16. joined slats, 17. paper interlacing [album], and 19. peas work. A relative of Froebel’s published something controversial in 1851 causing the Prussian government to ban kindergartens as an arm of the socialist movement. When Froebel died an embittered man in 1852, his hopes for social-educational reform in Germany and America looked hopeless.

The kindergarten was essentially tri-partite:

* toys for sedentary creative play (these Froebel called gifts and occupations)
* games and dances for healthy activity
* observing and nurturing plants in a garden for stimulating awareness of the natural world

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.

Answer 2

From Wikipedia:

Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (April 21, 1782 – June 21, 1852) laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have the unique needs and capabilities.

In 1840 he created the word kindergarten for the Play and Activity Institute he had founded in 1837 at Bad Blankenburg for young children. He designed the educational materials known as Froebel Gifts, or Fröbelgaben, which included geometric building blocks and pattern activity blocks. A book entitled Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman, examines the influence of Friedrich Froebel on Frank Lloyd Wright and modern art.

Answer 3

I could probably have a go at teaching you how to read sheet music if you were patient with me....I am not sure I would make a great teacher, though. I suppose I was taught the basics at a very early age....and I tend to think it is something you never forget. I think I would find it hard to "teach myself" most things....and this was illustrated when my brother gave me a guitar several years ago, which I still have, and have never got around to really learning how to play!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Don't just read Wikipedia. Look at easily accessible intros from those who write about it directly.

It concerns the teaching of much younger children.

It helps to just read a bit of intro material about Froebel himself.

In my work, I found this first site VERY helpful! :

http://www.froebelweb.org/

http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/Kevin%20j.brehony/web/index.html

Those 2 should give you an excellent intro!

Answer 6

Your most likely looking for a more indepth answer than this but so far this is what I've found, you've peaked my curiosity and I'll have to look further into this. Do you think the Froebelian approach to kindergarten is a little like Montessouri schools?

Friedrich Froebel [1782-1852] is best known as the father of the kindergarten system, which he also named. His own childhood was difficult; his mother died when he was a baby and he was raised by his strict Lutheran minister father. At 17. as an apprenticed forester he decided plants and animals were better treated than children. Froebel was then exposed to two important educators, Johann Pestalozzi [active, hands on educational activities] and Christian Weiss [geometric symmetries, chemical composition]. Froebel established first an elementary school and then a kindergarten with the goal of leading children to a UNITY with themselves. As important as Froebel was to education, he was equally important to the worlds of art and architecture.

In the 1840s, Froebel designed 20 sets of geometric toys gifts as merely a small part of his educational system. These included the following gifts: 2-6. blocks, 8. stick work, 9. rings, 10. net drawing exercises, 14. paper weaving, 15. slat work, 16. joined slats, 17. paper interlacing [album], and 19. peas work. A relative of Froebel’s published something controversial in 1851 causing the Prussian government to ban kindergartens as an arm of the socialist movement. When Froebel died an embittered man in 1852, his hopes for social-educational reform in Germany and America looked hopeless.

The following artists and architects seem to have a close connection to Froebel’s work:

Wassily Kandinsky [1866-1944] [Florence, Italy] attended one of the first Italian kindergartens. Many of Kandinsky’s Bauhaus period paintings bear a close resemblance to Froebel’s 20 gifts

Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] [USA} probably began his kindergarten training years before his mother found the Gifts at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial. Wright attributed these kindergarten toys with being the basis of all his work. University architectural classes [such as Columbia’s] on the importance of Froebel blocks are presented on the internet.

Piet Mondrian [1872-1944] [The Netherlands] taught drawing in primary schools at the age of 17. Drawing for small children in Holland at that time was of increasingly complex geometric designs on right-angle grids. This procedure was almost identical to the net drawing that Froebel first introduced. This drawing exercise and kindergarten system has been in public use in Holland since 1860.

Georges Braque [1882-1963] [Argentuil-Paris suburb] was exposed to the French national kindergarten system which advocated and used Froebelian teaching methods.

Charles Jeanneret [Le Corbusier] [1887-1965] [Switzerland] began his studies at the age of three. He studied under one of the first graduates of a new state-mandated Froebelian school. After three years in this private kindergarten, he entered public school which was also Froebelian.

Josef Albers [1888-1976] [Germany] apprenticed in a stained-glass workshop had a lifelong interest in geometric frames. He’s best known for his Homage to the Square.

Although Froebel died in despair, his teachings caused major changes in the education of small children. Of equal importance, the world’s of art and architecture also experienced major changes from his work. Another coincidence is the ‘unity’ this Lutheran boy sought is very similar to the teachings of the Unity Church in the United States. Today’s Unity Church is a haven for many ‘former’ Lutherans [and Catholics, etc.]. Also one of Wright’s better known structures is the Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois, 1906.

In the late 1800s, the Impressionists startled the world with their new concept of color and reflected light. Back in the kindergarten, the seeds of a really major revolution were being planted in the minds of small children.

Answer 7

ITs a lesson taught in Frobelian language and protocols

Answer 8

Expensive book lists?
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