Kindergarten Pestalozzi And Froebel. Kindergarten has been recognised and accepted as the best and most effective method of child development. Next to pestalozzi perhaps the most gifted of early 19th century educators was froebel the founder of the kindergarten movement and a theorist on the importance of constructive play and self activity in early childhood.
He advocated the physical training of children. Around 1840 fröbel created an institutional setting for this pedagogy called a kindergarten or garden of children. Froebel left the institution accepting the basic principles of pestalozzi s theory.
Permissive school atmosphere emphasis on nature and the object lesson.
Kindergarten has been recognised and accepted as the best and most effective method of child development. The first english speaking kindergarten was established in boston ma by a woman named elizabeth peabody and after studying with froebel in germany founded the first kindergarten teacher education program in the united states. Froebel left the institution accepting the basic principles of pestalozzi s theory. He had worked in the swiss school of johann henrich pestalozzi and conferred with other educational thinkers of his time.