When1: 1826
Who: Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel [Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August]
What: educator
Where: Germany
works\ On the Education of Man [1826]
Detail: He lived 1782 to 1852, established first kindergarten, and emphasized relationship between teacher and pupil. Teacher guides, not directs, child in self-discovery. Development stages are critical, and children must fully experience them. School curriculum must have continuity and connectedness. School must maintain close contact with family and community. Play is central to learning.
Metaphysics
Man, God, and nature are an organic unity. All living things have inherent form and purpose, not predetermined, that develops through creative struggle with environment. All living things grow from simple to complex structures with same underlying pattern.
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