Friedrich Froebel's Pedagogics of the Kindergarten Or, His Ideas Concerning the Play and Playthings of the Child

Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) was a German educator who introduced the concept of kindergarten. This book is a collection of fifteen essays, originally published in German in 1861, on the value of different stages of a child's play.Froebel found an educational value in every phase of the child's play, and in every object that engages its attention. Froebel finds all that the child does significant and of educational importance. In fact, he is the great pioneer and founder of child study as well as of the pedagogic theory of intellectual values.Friedrich, Froebel is the author of 'Friedrich Froebel's Pedagogics of the Kindergarten Or, His Ideas Concerning the Play and Playthings of the Child', published 2003 under ISBN 9781410209269 and ISBN 1410209261.