tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55992617547888742002024-02-08T02:06:42.451-08:00Early Childhood CareAakankshahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12490245774201421575noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599261754788874200.post-10546009316739651142008-11-26T21:59:00.001-08:002008-11-26T22:04:29.006-08:00Contact Me<form action="http://kontactr.com/euser.php" method="post"><input type="hidden" value="11132" name="id"> <table style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana" cellpadding="10" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="right">Your Name : </td><br /><td><input style="WIDTH: 250px" name="sender_name"></td><br /></tr><tr><td align="right">Your Email : </td><td><input style="WIDTH: 250px" name="sender_email"></td></tr><tr><td align="right">Subject : </td><br /><td><input style="WIDTH: 250px" name="subject"></td><br /></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">Message : </td><td><textarea style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana" name="message" rows="10" cols="40"></textarea></td></tr><tr><td valign="center" align="right">Image (case-sensitive): </td><td><img src="http://kontactr.com/captcha.php" /> <input style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana" name="captcha_code"></td></tr><tr><td align="middle" colspan="2"><input id="send" style="FONT-SIZE: 18px; WIDTH: 100px; LETTER-SPACING: 5px" type="submit" value="Send" name="send"></td></tr></tbody></table></form>Aakankshahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12490245774201421575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599261754788874200.post-76915978276454945142008-11-03T07:01:00.001-08:002008-11-26T22:13:10.105-08:00Frederick Froebel - Father of Kinder garten<p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Many educational reforms of today may appear to be innovative, but the ideas that inspired them have been around from the 18<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Frederick Froebel (1782-1852), was born on Central Germany. As a lonely boy, neglected by his stepmother and distracted father, he formed youthful kinship with nature that blossomed into spiritual exaltation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He fashioned a personal philosophy of unity that embraced the spiritual potential within a person; the relations between people in a free society; the place of individual in relation to the nature that surrounds and includes him; and the life force that controls growth in all things.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus, were born the three main ideas of Froebel’s education philosophy <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="">-<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Unity of creation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="">-<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Respect for the individual child;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="">-<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The importance of Play in children’s education<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi & Christain Weiss played a vital role in Froebel’s education philosophy. Their influence on development of both art & architecture was profound on Froebel’s education philosophy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pestalozzi was one of the first educators to advocate more active, hands on activities for what he termed “Object lessons” or direct concrete observation. Pestalozzi developed techniques that combined the two “Teaching of Writing” and the “Comprehension of Form”.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Under the tutorship of Pestalozzi, Froebel observed that “children have extraordinary relatedness in exploring, observing and interacting with nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Froebel saw how nature’s domain invited the child to uncover its secrets, each child has a strong impulse to know why they love nature’s manifold. He says, “Therefore, the child would know himself why he loves the thing; he would know all its properties, its innermost nature, that he may learn to understand himself in his attachment.” Thus showing that each child gains knowledge through observation & experiment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The child’s primary route to knowledge begins with an instinct for activity which issues from a deep interest in nature and not from a conscious thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1814, Froebel took an assistant’s job at Mineralogical Museum of the University of Berlin under Professor Christain Weiss. Weiss was then in process of formulating the parameters & technique of modern crystallography, changing the field from a branch of natural philosophy to an exact mathematical science.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Froebel discovered that each shape of crystal had systematic variations in the design of their forms, planes & symmetries – providing an obvious unique structure to themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Froebel viewed nature as a great work of design by a higher power and this intense & prolonged occupation with geometric handiwork of God had a profound impact on his future work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">FROEBEL’S STUDY<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="right"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t32" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="32" oned="t" path="m,l21600,21600e" filled="f"> <v:path arrowok="t" fillok="f" connecttype="none"> <o:lock ext="edit" shapetype="t"> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t32" style="'position:absolute;" connectortype="straight"> <v:stroke endarrow="block"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><span style="position: absolute; z-index: 251661312; left: 0px; margin-left: 70px; margin-top: 32px; width: 12px; height: 135px;"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">COSMOLOGY </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(adapting unity of creation that embraced spiritual potential within a person)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style=""> </span>(relations between people in free society) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(person relation with nature) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(life force controls growth in all things)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;" align="right"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">MINERALOGY<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(understanding minerals, crystallogy, understanding systematic variations in forms of crystals and why they grow like that) (Planes and Symmetries)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He began to perceive “transforming developing energy” in the smallest fixed forms of nature, and learned to think of crystals, plants & human beings as equivalent consequences of the same laws of growth.” Froebel postulated that since the forms of crystals are the outcome of the same natural laws that also shape growth of individuals & societies, handling these forms properly could reveal and illuminate the creator’s mind itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1816, <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Froebel formed his own school for children and after 20 years of teaching he concluded that a rigid dullness was often found within children who began schooling at officially mandated age of 7.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Two years later, Froebel opened his first revolutionary invention “KINDERGARTEN”. This concept related Two Ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="">-<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Organisational Model (A garden for use by children)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="">-<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Its Spiritual foundation (a garden in which children should be raised).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kindergarten, was meant to convey the interconnectedness of all forms of growth – Froebel designed physical tools, which he called “Gifts” – he created a methodology that when properly utilized, provided children with infinite number of conceptual links between gifts and the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">These GIFTS were used to create structures of pictures into 3 Fundamental Categories – Forms of Nature (or Life), Forms of Knowledge (or Science) and Forms of Beauty (or Art).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Life forms were tangible (Trees, People)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Knowledge forms ( mathematical)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Forms of Arts (systematical patterns)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kindergarten has continued to include singing and dancing as well as close observation of nature: growth of plants, symmetries of crystals and seashells. This practical and philosophical heart of the system, interconnected the series of 20 gifts and occupations – exercises involving sticks, coloured paper, mosaic tiles and serving cards as well as building blocks and drawing equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The ultimate lesson of Kindergarten was straightforward. The forms of world, mathematics and art are equivalent and interchangeable.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Frederick Froebel taught that children should not be allowed to draw from casual appearances of nature until they had first mastered the basic forms lying hidden behind appearances.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Aakankshahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12490245774201421575noreply@blogger.com3