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Title: Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman ISBN: 0-8109-3526-0 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: fresh perspective on the Froebelian "gifts"
Comment: A thorough tracing of the ideas and uses of materials (gifts/occupations) in the early kindergarten movement. The juxtaposition of pictures of the kindergarten exercises and manipulatives with the adult abstract art of 20th century Cubism, Constructivism, and architectural planning is stimulating and thought provoking. This book is both delightful reading and browsing, and intellectually fresh in probing connections between childhood experience and adult art expression. The respect paid to Froebel is also gratifying. Many books in education leave the impression that he was an irresponsible dreamer and was a victim of lifelong misunderstanding and harrassment. This book acknowledges the personal and political problems he experienced without making them a focus of the text. Professionals in child development will find this a rewarding reading experience.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a great read
Comment: This book on the repercussions Froebel's invention of kindertgarten had on artistic sensibility does an excellent job of tying its premise to quotations and examples from artists of the period in which these effects would surface. However, it's not a great read, and once you accept the premise, the book becomes an exercise. None of the comparisons were all that astounding. As an aside, this book probably contains the best interpretation of the term "zeitgeist" I've ever seen in print
Rating: 5
Summary: Sheds new light on the importance of Froebel's creation.
Comment: Although everyone knows what kindergarten is, so few understand how it came to be.
Brosterman carefully shows the reader the background and takes us on a tour
of Froebel's "Gaben" or educational "gifts."
The book is gull of gorgeous photos of the games which Brosterman has
been collecting over the years. Fascinating is his research which
connects the creations of Kandinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, etc.
to their childhood exposure to the then revolutionary
educational activities. This book is informative and beautifully
photographed. For all elementary teachers, parents, school libraries and everyone
who has ever wondered about kindergarten.
As a Froebel family member, teacher, and art dealer I found the book exceptional at all those levels
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Title: The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by William A. Link ISBN: 0807845892 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: The Challenges of Educational Change by Daniel L. Duke ISBN: 0205360203 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 05 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $48.80 |
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Title: Brown V Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) by Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, Leland B. Ware, Leland Ware ISBN: 0700612890 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Conducting Research Literature Reviews : From Paper to the Internet by Arlene Fink ISBN: 0761909052 Publisher: SAGE Publications Pub. Date: 21 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky by Carol Garhart Mooney ISBN: 188483485X Publisher: Redleaf Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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