- Education
Elements of a Froebelian Education
The Principles include:
- recognition of the uniqueness of each child's capacity and potential
- a holistic view of each child's development
- an ecological view of mankind in the natural world
- a recognition of the integrity of childhood in its own right
- a recognition of the child as part of the community
The Pedagogy involves:
- knowledgeable and appropriately qualified teachers and nursery nurses
- awareness that skilled and informed observation of children underpins effective teaching and learning
- use of first hand experience, play, talk and reflection as media for learning
- activities which have sense, purpose and meaning for the child, and involve joy, wonder, concentration and satisfaction
- a holistic approach to learning which recognises children as active, feeling and thinking human beings, seeing patterns and making connections with their own lives
- encouragement rather than punishment
- individual and collaborative activity and play
- development of children's independence and sense of mastery, building on what children are good at
- development of all faculties and abilites of each child: imaginative, creative, linguistic, mathematical, musical, aesthetic, scientific, physical, social, moral, cultural, and spiritual
- a recognition that parents and educators work in harmony and partnership
The Environment should:
- be physically safe but intellectually challenging, promoting curiosity, enquiry, sensory stimulation and aesthetic awareness
- combine indoors and outdoors, the cultural and the natural
- provide free access to a rich range of materials that promote open-ended opportunities for play, representation and creativity
- demonstrate the nursery to be an integral part of the community it serves, working in close partnership with parents and other skilled adults
- be educative rather than merely amusing or occupying
- promote interdependence as well as independence, community as well as individuality and responsibility as well as freedom
source: page 115 of The Froebel Educational Institute: the Origins and History of the College by Peter Weston 2002 University of Surrey Roehampton
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