Pedagogies of the Kindergarten

This is a translation of Die Pädagogik des Kindergartens, fifteen of Froebel’s essays collected by Wichard Lange in 1861. Froebel found an educational value in every phase of the child’s play and in every object that engages its attention. Here he gives a thoroughgoing discussion of the educative effect of objects, such as a ball or cube, upon the development of the kindergarten child, viewing each object from three points of view: as a form of life, as a form of beauty and as a form of knowledge. The work includes diagrams illustrating educational methods of play.