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This text provides a comprehensive analysis of historical archives, letters, and primary sources to offer unique insight into how Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play has been understood, interpreted, and modified throughout history and in particular, as a consequence of it's adoption in the US.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Friedrich Fröbel and his pedagogy of kindergarten and play
Chapter 1: Friedrich Fröbel on his way of becoming an educator of young children
Chapter 2: The Invention of Kindergarten
Chapter 3: The Challenge of Finding the "Authentic" Fröbel and Translating his Work
Chapter 4: Fröbel's worldview and his pedagogy of kindergarten and play
Part II: The Fröbelianer and their modification of Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play
Chapter 5: The organizational development of the Fröbel movement
Chapter 6: The evolution of Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play
Part III: How kindergarten came to the United States
Chapter 7: The kindergarten movement in the US and the openness to Fröbel
Chapter 8: The transfer of Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play to the US
Chapter 9: Conclusion: The history of Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play and its modification
Bibliography
About the author
Helge Wasmuth is Associate Professor in the Department of Childhood Education at Mercy College, USA.
Summary
This text provides a comprehensive analysis of historical archives, letters, and primary sources to offer unique insight into how Fröbel’s pedagogy of kindergarten and play has been understood, interpreted, and modified throughout history and in particular, as a consequence of it’s adoption in the US.
