1. MOUNT TABOR TRAINING COLLEGE, PATHANAPURAM
EDU-01 : Knowledge and Curriculum: Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives
FRIEDRICH FROEBEL - METHODOLOGY
Submitted by,
Bincy Varghese
No - 7
Physical Science
Submittedto,
Dr. George Varghese
Asst. Professor in Education
2. FRIEDRICH FROEBEL
•Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782-1852)
•German educator and psychologist
•founder of the KINDERGARTEN system
•one of the greatest contributors of the 19th century to the science of
education
•laid the foundation for modern education system
•Froebel’s first kindegarten - Blackenburg, Germany (1837)
•Important works- The Education of Man, Pedagogies of
Kindergarten
3. FROEBEL’S KINDERGARTEN
• system of pre-school
• children are taught through creative play, social interaction and
natural expressions
• Kindergarten means ‘ Children’s garden’
• children in school to grow as freely as flowers in a garden
• compared a school with a garden, child with a seedling, teacher
with a gardener
4. signifies both garden for children and also garden of children
a location where they
can observe and
interact with nature
they themselves can grow and
develop in freedom from
arbitary political and social
imperatives
“Play is the highest expression of human development in
childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a
child’s soul” - Friedrich Froebel
5. FEATURES OF KINDERGARTEN
• Free self activity
• Creativity
• Social Participation
• Motor expression
• Gifts and occupations as materials and methods of education
• Teaching through play
• Teaching through songs, gestures and construction
6. FROEBEL’S GIFTS
Play materials for young children
• Gift 1 - soft ball or yarn ball in solid
colour
• Gift 2 - a cylinder, a sphere and a
cube made of wood
• Gift 3- 8 identical beech wood cubes
• Gift 4 - 8 equal rectangular parts
• Gift 5 - consist of 27 smaller cubes
7. MERITS
• emphasis on early childhood education
• learning by play
• various gift provide sensory training
• develops of imagination and creative capacities of children
• develops mental, emotional, social, spiritual qualities
• simple, interesting and attractive method
• broadened the concept and scope of the school as an
essential social institution
8. DEMERITS
• distract the child from serious learning
• requires number of materials and specialised teachers
• limited scope for correlation in the teaching of various
subjects
• source of development is internal so this system overlook
the importance of environment in the development of child
• doesnot provide for the study of the individual child
9. CONCLUSION
• first person to gave attention to early childhood education
• Education is necessary for the complete development of
child
• The gifts will teach the child to use the environment as an
educational aid
