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Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʔaʊɡʊst ˈfʁøːbl̩] ⓘ; 21 April 1782 – 21 June 1852) was a German pedagogue, a student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities.
Since 1848, Johanna Goldschmidt was in contact with Friedrich Fröbel and invited him in November 1849 to Hamburg. This led to the foundation of the Hochschule für das weibliche Geschlecht (1850–1852), the first institution of higher education for women in Germany. In this project she worked closely with liberal Christian women. 22 ...
The Froebel gifts (German: Fröbelgaben) are educational play materials for young children, originally designed by Friedrich Fröbel for the first kindergarten at Bad Blankenburg. Playing with Froebel gifts, singing, dancing, and growing plants were each important aspects of this child-centered approach to education.
Karl Friedrich Fröbel (1807-1894), German pedagogue, nephew of Friedrich Fröbel; Luise Fröbel (1815–1900), German pedagogue, wife of Friedrich Fröbel; Julius Fröbel (1805–1893), German geologist and mineralogist, journalist, and democratic revolutionary; Kai Frobel, German environmental ecologist
She trained as a teacher at the Pestalozzi-Fröbel Haus in Germany, [4] and moved to Paris to tutor the children of a noble family, before teaching in England from 1879 under the School Board for London. [5] As a follower of the revisionist educational methods advocated by the German pedagogue and founder of the kindergarten movement Friedrich ...
Margarethe Meyer brought Fröbel's ideas to America. She spent two years in New York then went west. She employed Fröbel's philosophy while caring for her daughter, Agathe Schurz, and four neighborhood children in Wisconsin, leading them in games, songs and group activities channeling their energy and preparing them for primary school.
Friedrich Fröbel was one of the most influential founders of kindergartens, also coining the word in 1840. Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852) opened a "play and activity" institute in 1837, in Bad Blankenburg , in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , as an experimental social experience for children entering school.
Anna Wulff, photographed by Holger Damgaard. Anna Wulff (13 August 1874, Frederiksberg — 7 January 1935, Søllerød) was a pioneering Danish kindergarten teacher. On the basis of experience she gained both from her mother and from a course at the Fröbel Foundation in Dresden, in 1897 she began training teachers to work in kindergartens in Denmark and in 1906 established Frøbelhøjskolen, a ...