Introduction
Part I: The Young Froebel
1. An Unfortunate Childhood and Finding a Purpose in Life
2. Suddenly an Educator
3. Becoming an Educator of Humankind
Part II: The Teaching Froebel
4. The General German
Educational Institute in Keilhau
5. An Existential Crisis
Part III: The Playing Froebel
6. The First Kindergarten and the Establishment of a New Idea
7. The Prohibition of Kindergarten
8. Froebel’s Final Years and the Spread of Kindergarten
Conclusion: Froebel in the 21st Century
References
Index
A biography of Friedrich Froebel, based on untranslated letters, which tells the story of the man who invented kindergarten.
Helge Wasmuth is Professor of Early Childhood and
Childhood Education at Mercy College, USA. He is co-editor of The
Bloomsbury Handbook to Friedrich Froebel (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Ulf Sauerbrey is Professor of Early Childhood Education at
Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Michael Winkler is Professor of General Pedagogy and Theory
of Social Pedagogy at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena,
Germany, and Visiting Lecturer at the Evangelical University of
Dresden, Germany, and the Sigmund Freud University of Vienna,
Austria.
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