Experts agree that high-quality early childhood education promotes the healthy cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of young children. Decades’ worth of evidence shows that the highest quality early education is child-centred and play-based. And yet, in many places, early childhood education today is dominated by skills-based, academically-oriented, test-focused teaching.We seek to change that.As an…
Date: Friday 8 December 2023 Time: 08.00 New York / 13.00 London / 14.00 Erfurt / 22.00 Tokyo (duration 1 hour) To mark Bloomsbury’s publication of this major new book, we’re holding a free online event with the opportunity to meet the editors and hear what’s in the book. The event is aimed at students,…
On 10th November 2023, the Fröbel Research Centre Professorship Schmid at the University of Erfurt received the materials from Dr Erika Knechtel’s collection. This unique collection of material on Friedrich Froebel is the culmination of the life’s work of Dr Erika Knechtel, a renowned Froebel researcher in the former German Democratic Republic. At the age…
Our worldwide Froebel community will be pleased to learn of the new Bloomsbury Handbook to Friedrich Froebel, edited by Tina Bruce, Yukiyo Nishida, Sacha Powell, Helge Wasmuth, and Jane Whinnett. The handbook includes chapters written by numerous international experts and is available from November 2023. Readers of this website can benefit from the 35%-off discount…
The Froebel Trust, a longtime institutional supporter and collaborator of the International Froebel Society, has published on its website a wonderful summary of the International Froebel Society’s 10th Biennial Conference. The summary, written by Sacha Powell, the Trust’s CEO, begins: ‘Participants travelled from around the globe to Ireland for the 10th Biennial conference of The International…
Maria Cooper: “Why does Froebel matter in the 21st century?” This article first appeared in the journal The First Years Ngā Tau Tuatahi 24 (1) 2022, where it was published (and is republished here) subject to the copyright provisions of a Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercial) License.
The 5th Biennial International Froebel Conference: Froebel College of Education, Dublin, 12-14 April 2012. The 5th Biennial International Froebel Conference was held in Froebel College of Education, Dublin, Thurs April 12th – Sat. 14th with the theme of “International Perspectives on Froebelian Theory and Practice”. The conference was opened by Marie McLoughlin, President, Froebel College…
