Kindergarten Pestalozzi And Froebel. He advocated the physical training of children. As a young man froebel accepted a teaching position at the frankfurt model school.
Next to pestalozzi perhaps the most gifted of early 19th century educators was froebel the founder of the kindergarten movement and a theorist on the importance of constructive play and self activity in early childhood. Pestalozzi welcomed the poor into his school including orphans practice that was revolutionary. Around 1840 fröbel created an institutional setting for this pedagogy called a kindergarten or garden of children.
Froebel s kindergarten curriculum method educational philosophy kindergarten was the first organized early childhood educational method.
Froebel however was a strong idealist whose view of education was closely related to religion. As a keen observer of nature and humanity froebel approached human education from both a biological and a spiritual perspective. Froebel left the institution accepting the basic principles of pestalozzi s theory. Permissive school atmosphere emphasis on nature and the object lesson.