The influence of Friedrich Froebel

• Philosophy of Education
• Frank Lloyd Wright architect
• Johannes Itten Bauhaus
• Paul Klee artist
• Prince Charles
• Bertrand Russell philosopher
• Enid Blyton childrens author
• Alfred Adler psychologist
• The History of Kindergarten
• Kindergarten and Froebel gifts
• about Friedrich Froebel
• Froebel's dream was mystical.
• The Gardener of Children
• Inventing Kindergarten
• Froebel and the Modernists
• A Garden for Children
• Mothers made conscious
• Educational Theory and Practice
• Experiencing Nature
• The Architect in the Nursery
• Froebel's Kindergarten Gifts

The words of Friedrich Froebel

• The Education of Man
• Mother Songs
• a collection of quotes
• Origins of Nursery Education: The Froebelian Experiment
• a Froebel bibliography

Education before Froebel

• John Amos Comenius 1592-1670
  - The Art of Teaching
  - The World Illustrated
• Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-78
• Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746-1827

influences on Friedrich Froebel

• German Romantic movement
• Christianity and the Romantic movement
• German Romantic Literary Theory
• Krause

Froebel Gifts

• index to gifts
• 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10
• list of gifts and occupations

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Reminiscences of Froebel by Baroness Bertha Marie von Marenholtz-Buelow

• abridged first two chapters
• first meeting with Froebel
• Pestalozzi vs Froebel
• Christian Background of Froebel's Kindergarten
• Emily Shirreff writes about the book
• some thoughts about this book

Life of Baroness von Marenholtz Buelow by her niece, Baroness von Buelow

• Introduction of Kindergarten into Russia
• Diary of Baroness von Marenholtz - Forgiveness
• Froebel's marriage and Verbot of the Kindergarten
• Death of Friedrich Froebel
• Goethe Foundation
• support for Kindergarten movement
• The funeral of Baroness von Marenholtz-Buelow; Let me go so that I may go to Jesus

Women took Kindergarten around the World

• Henriette Schrader-Breymann 1827 - 1899
• Baroness von Marenholtz-Buelow 1811-1893
• Margarethe Meyer Schurz 1833 - 1876
• Elizabeth Peabody 1804 - 1894
• Susan Elizabeth Blow 1843 - 1916
• Eliza Ann Cooper Blaker 1854 - 1926

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