Froebel gifts (3 risultati)

Froebel Gifts twelve (sewing/embroidery), thirteen (paper-cutting), and fourteen (paper-weaving) represent an increase in difficulty as well as an increase in the aesthetic value of the finished products. Froebel valued beauty and artistry in learning, and the later Gifts encourage students to pay greater attention to color, design, and craft. These more advanced gifts, as well as gift eighteen (paper-folding) have been particularly influential to figures like Frank Lloyd Wright and Kandinsky, as well as book artists like Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen. 6 z 6." With seventeen beautifully executed paper-weaving samples, including a woven-paper title-page. Accordion-fold leaves in brown cloth album with fore-edge ties. Titled in gilt. Some edgewear. Floral pastedowns. Some toning to front pastedown and first leaf. A very good, unusually clean and attractive example of unique a Froebel Gift sample album. Friedrich Froebel (1782 - 1852), early childhood education pioneer who developed the concept of the kindergarten, created his Gifts between about 1830 and 1850. These twenty activities, which varied in complexity and included artistic methods like embroidery, paper-folding (similar to origami), and parquetry (similar to tangrams), were intended for young children to preteens. Many of the Gifts could be fashioned through materials available at home, but publishers like the Milton Bradley Company also distributed the materials for the Gifts in kits for parents and teachers. In large part due to the popularity of Milton BradleyÕs Froebelian materials, ÒThe Forms selected by Froebel and his followers in the 1850s and 1860s thus became a kind of international standard for use in schools of all countries,Ó (Brosterman). Through the Gifts, educators were able to use the concept of Òlearning through playÓ to teach students abstract reasoning, problem-solving, artistry, and many more skills that would prepare them for a life of creativity and independent thinking. Bertha Frances Dudley, later Habersham (1867 Ð 1937) was a kindergarten educator trained at the Oregon Kindergarten Training School in Portland (OKTS). Dudley trained under Caroline Dunlop at the OKTS, which was sponsored by the author and kindergarten pioneer Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 Ð 1923). By 1893, Dudley was a principal in the Oregon school system. See Brosterman, Norman. Inventing Kindergarten, p. 99.…

Condizione: Very Good. N.p.: s.i., [1928]. First Edition. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's pictorial staple bound wrappers signed in image "GEL"; illustrated throughout, including photograph of a kindergarten class in Lima. Very light wear to margins, brief tape repair inside upper left-hand panel, else a Very Good example. Transformation fund-raising pamphlet for American kindergarten students to raise money for supplies at a kindergarten in Lima, Peru. The front wrappers open like a pair of doors into a kindergarten supply store, "For we're buying with the money / Juniors give o'er all this land / For the Lima Kindergarten. / They already have the land." Through another door leads to a photograph of the students at the Lima Kindergarten sitting expectantly in a classroom for their Froebel school supplies: "There are balls and books and pictures, / To be colored and cut out; / Blocks and shining letters on them, / Pencil, crayons. Hear that shout?" Unrecorded in OCLC as of January, 2025.…

The present sent of blocks is notable in large part because it predates the 1876 Centennial Exhibition and the corresponding explosion in popularity of the kindergarten concept in the United States. Milton Bradley published the first American book on the kindergarten, a translation of Edward WiebÕs The Paradise of Childhood, in 1869 and within the next few years was producing activity kits based on the Gift designs of Friedrich Froebel (1782 - 1852). In large part due to the popularity of Milton BradleyÕs Froebelian materials, ÒThe Forms selected by Froebel and his followers in the 1850s and 1860s thus became a kind of international standard for use in schools of all countries,Ó (Brosterman, p. 99). FroebelÕs ideas were further amplified at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, which included the ÒKindergarten Cottage,Ó an exhibit of work done by young Boston students who were engaging with FroebelÕs curriculum in one of the first kindergarten classrooms in the country (Brosterman, p. 10). (Brosterman, Norman. Inventing Kindergarten, 1997.) Twenty color-painted blocks (2 x 1 x Ó) enclosed in wooden box (7 x 5 x 1 Ó). On one side of each block is an illustration of an animal and on the other is a letter of the alphabet, in both upper- and lowercase, that corresponds with the animal pictured (e.g., R and rat). With duplicates of three blocks (Q/quail, W/water hog, and T/tiger), plus one block that seems to be misprinted with ÒDÓ on one side and Òhorse carÓ on the other. Lacking ten letters (C, E, H, I, N, O, S, V, Y, and Z). Black walnut box with color-printed paper onlay to sliding lid. Lip missing from sliding lid and some rubbing and cracking to the paper onlay. Advertisement leaf, partially rubbed away, pasted onto verso of lid. Edgewear to blocks, with some fading to the paint. Despite general wear, the box and blocks are well-preserved. A good set of rare building blocks that predate the popularization of the kindergarten concept in the United States. The twenty alphabet blocks preserved here do not seem to correspond with the set named on the box label. According to BradleyÕs Catalogue and Price List of Games and Home Amusements for 1873-4, Set 4 of the Milton Bradley Alphabet & Kindergarten Building Blocks contained thirty blocks: ÒRoman alphabets, large and small letters, numerals and animals. Blocks painted, black walnut box,Ó (p. 22). The present set of blocks do seem to be a product of the Milton Bradley Co., and resemble the blocks illustrated in BradleyÕs Catalogue, but probably originate from one of the other six sets in the Alphabet & Kindergarten Building Blocks series.…