The Bloomsbury Handbook to Friedrich Froebel

Tina Bruce, Yukiyo Nishida, Sacha Powell, Helge Wasmuth, Jane Whinnett

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350323209
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350323223
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Elementary Education

Friedrich Froebel (1782 – 1852), the inventor of kindergarten, was one of the most influential educational thinkers of the 19th century. This book showcases the cutting-edge work being undertaken around the world inspired by this pioneer of early childhood education and shows the many ways in which Froebel's work has been applied and extended. It presents a wealth of Froebelian expertise on topics including pedagogy and curriculum, history, architecture, neuroscience, peace and religious education and links Froebel's theories to other thinkers including John Dewey, Michel Foucault, Paulo Freire, Aili Helenius and Chen Heqin. It highlights what Froebel means today in a variety of settings around the world and includes contributions from academics and practitioners based in North and South America, Europe, Australasia, Africa and Asia.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• A tribute
• General introduction: Connections, disconnections, reconnecting and interconnecting
• Reflections: Froebel for me
• Reflections: What Froebel means to me
• Section I Connections – searching for the authentic Friedrich Froebel
• Editor’s introduction
• 1 Translating pedagogy – reading Froebel in different languages
• 2 Froebel’s law of the sphere as a theoretical groundwork for his pedagogy
• 3 Froebel’s mathematical thinking, German Idealism and the occupation of plaiting
• 4 Between theory and educational approach: Anthropological presumptions and basic terms of Froebel’s pedagogy of play
• 5 Friedrich Froebel’s Mutter- und Koselieder and its importance today
• 6 Archival holdings on Friedrich Froebel and the edition of his letters
• 7 A discussion of Froebel from authentic to modern
• 8 Peace as unification of life – peace building as hidden curriculum in Froebel’s Education of Man
• Section II Disconnections and transitology - The transfer, translation and transformation of Froebelian Study and practice
• Editor’s introduction
• 9 Discoveries at the back of the kindergarten cupboard
• 10 Pioneering Froebelians and the kindergarten movements in Italy
• 11 From Keilhau to the UKEleonore Heerwart’s role in establishing Froebelian pedagogy in Britain from 1861 to 1883
• 12 Grace Fulmer and conservative and liberal approaches to Froebelian education
• 13 The American Froebelians
• 14 Morality, beauty and FroebelCultural philanthropy and the establishment of free-kindergartens in Australia
• 15 The route to the Hebrew kindergarten in the early twentieth century
• 16 The Froebelian garden in Spain
• Section III Reconnecting – exploring and working through the challenges of Froebelian practice
• Editor’s introduction
• 17 Getting down and dirty with Froebel on the allotment
• 18 Pollinating minds at Guildford Nursery School and Family Centre: A Froebelian approach
• 19 Exploring interconnectivity between Froebelian principles and Australian Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing
• 20 Hope Cottage Nursery School – a year of nature and sustainability in the age of climate crisis: A journey in progress
• 21 #BlocksRock: Froebelian block play in the twenty-first century
• 22 Blocks in Bhutan
• 23 Froebelian approaches in primary educationA case study of topic-based learning in the primary phase at Annan School
• 24 The Glory Kindergarten and peace education
• 25 The Power of Partnership: Linking Froebelian practice and connecting practitioners across Early Learning Centres and primary settings in Midlothian, Scotland
• 26 Learning from our children: The story of Eilidh
• 27 Family Songs at Home: A multiagency approach to supporting children and families through digital media using Froebel’s Mother Songs
• 28 Developing Froebel’s ‘instinct into insight’: A play therapist supports families to grow and find solutions to their own challenges
• Section IV Interconnecting – exploring and finding links between the essentials of Froebelian principles and practices and current research and theories
• Editor’s introduction
• 29 Pedagogies of care with one-year-olds: A contemporary Froebelian lens in New Zealand
• 30 A Froebelian approach to making theatre for the very young
• 31 A life ‘in and with’ nature in the period of earliest childhood
• 32 From ‘real spaces’ to ‘other spaces’ in young refugee children’s free-flow play
• 33 The encounter of the Froebel blocks and the giant-sized blocks
• 34 Pedagogies of hope: Exploring play opportunities for young children in an urban environment
• 35 The roots of Froebelian arts and skills pedagogy in memorized narratives about Finnish early childhood education and teacher education from the 1920s to the 1990s
• 36 The art of serious play: Froebel’s influence on early childhood pedagogy and beyond to the creative work of artists and designers
• 37 Off the grid: Insight into design’s inner and outer landscapes
• 38 Spirituality in early childhood pedagogy: A Froebelian lens on the role of women in a Chinese context
• 39 The realization of ‘Life-Unity’ in the Mother Songs
• 40 Educating hearts and minds in early childhood educationThe importance of social emotional learning
• 41 Stirring the sleeping embers: Exploring the spiritual foundations of Froebelian concepts
• 42 The passage of time in the Scottish Froebel story
• 43 Spatiality in Finnish early childhood education history and its connections to Froebelian pedagogy – a closer look at the kitchen area
• 44 Integrative neuroscience and Froebelian understandings in early childhood education
• 45 Froebel as an antidote to twenty-first-century neoliberal curriculum reform policies
• 46 From Freire to Froebel
• 47 Froebelian researchers and the implications for research practice in post-Second World War Japan: Two case studies of Professor Shoji Masako and Professor Ogasawara Michio
• 48 Young voices on Covid-19: An exploration of the Froebel storytelling approach in support for young children’s agency and autonomy through the Covid-19 pandemic
• From the team of editors
• Index
• Copyright