nurturing children to be inquisitive and open to the world
Johannes Froebel-Parker, B.A. ’79, M.A. ’82, M.S. ’85, is the author of The First Kindergarten, the third novel in his Ahnentafel series. In this historical novel, which includes a great deal of biographical information, Froebel-Parker joins through literature the lives and contributions of two of the world’s greatest proponents of children’s education.
via UAlbany Magazine – Fall 2013 – University at Albany – SUNY.
Prince Hisahito is third in line to the throne after his uncle Crown Prince Naruhito and his father Prince Akishino.
The son of Prince Akishino and his wife, Kiko, the prince is in his second year at a Tokyo elementary school affiliated with Ochanomizu University and seems to be doing well, looking after first year pupils and playing with his many friends.
Source: Prince Hisahito, third in line to Imperial throne, turns 8 | The Japan Times
“We must call the little children from the very earliest years, and prepare them for useful and honorable citizenship.”
“I have tried to outline the plan. Let me briefly summarize. Take the very little child into the kindergarten and there begin the work of physical, mental, and moral training. Put the child in possession of his powers; develop his faculties; unfold his moral nature; cultivate mechanical skill in the use of the hands; give him a sense of symmetry and harmony, a quick judgment of number, measure, and size; stimulate his inventive faculties; make him familiar with the customs and usages of well-ordered lives; teach him to be kind, courteous, helpful, and unselfish; inspire him to love whatsoever things are true, and right, and kind, and noble; and thus equipped, physically, mentally, and morally, send him forth to the wider range of study.”
“This training should put the boy or girl into the possession of the tools for employment, or for the cultivation of the arts of drawing.”
As one of the most noted among the disciples of the great Froebel, Miss Emily Sheriff, of London, said: “The poor man suffers wrong when his education is so defective that he can not use his faculties aright, when his senses are blunted, his observation and judgment insecure.”
Maria Grey and her sister Emily Sherriff shared an interest in the Frobelian movement.
Maria Grey, nee Shirreff, was born in 1815 and in 1841 married William Grey, nephew of Earl Grey Prime Minister from 1830-34 and champion of the Reform Act. She took up the twin causes of the professional education of teachers, particularly of women teachers, and the establishment of Education as a field of study. She was the creator of the National Union for Improving the Education of Women of all classes, known as the Women’s Education Union (WEU), a pressure group formed to state a case for women’s rights to professional recognition as teachers. The WEU was sponsored by the Society of Arts and had as its president Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria.
Each room will enable students to interact with the garden and the outside. On the ground floor, each room will have a full-length window that opens onto the garden. On the next level, some of the windows will open onto a small balcony. The windows in each room will be placed to frame the views back to Main Building, across the Wyselaskie buildings, onto the garden or out through the elms to Princes Park. The top floor common room will open onto roof terraces at tree-top level.
Lovell Chen are internationally recognised as leaders in working with heritage environments.
In designing this building, we have studied graduate accommodation around the country and consulted with our graduates. Our principal lesson has been that the most successful schemes provide a little more privacy and space than undergraduates normally experience, but have common spaces for cooking and socialising. This spatial concept ensures that students are involved with their community, rather than being isolated in fully self-contained apartment-style rooms.
The new building is designed as a set of connected pavilions, rather than a single block or wing. Its five small pavilions will contain a total of 20 ensuite rooms for graduates, on two levels. The pavilions will be joined by a third level with a large shared kitchen, dining and study area.
Each room will enable students to interact with the garden and the outside. On the ground floor, each room will have a full-length window that opens onto the garden. On the next level, some of the windows will open onto a small balcony. The windows in each room will be placed to frame the views back to Main Building, across the Wyselaskie buildings, onto the garden or out through the elms to Princes Park. The top floor common room will open onto roof terraces at tree-top level.
First and foremost, we want to enchant and engage the children, get them digging and planting and picking, or get them mixing or rolling or chopping, or get them around a table with their own freshly baked pizza topped with their own tomato sauce, liberally scattered with herbs from the garden, and the result is enthusiasm, real learning and great flavours
Stephanie Alexander
The Kitchen Garden Program was first established in 2001 at Collingwood College, as an experiential learning pilot program by Stephanie Alexander and Collingwood College. Each week 180 children in Grades 3 to 6 spend forty five minutes gardening in their organic vegetable garden and orchard which they helped to design and build, and now maintain in our school grounds.
via Kitchen Garden.
a.k.a. Magic Cube
Circa 2000.
(laminated cardboard with Andy Warhol art, 2.75 inches)
change arises from the structure of the object
an embodiment of the eight trigrams underlying
the I Ching as the corners of a cube
During its early years in the nineteenth century, kindergarten was based around a system of abstract exercises that aimed to instill in young children an understanding of the mathematically generated logic underlying the ebb and flow of creation. This revolutionary system was developed by the German scientist Friedrich Froebel whose vision of childhood education changed the course of our culture laying the grounds for modernist art, architecture and design. Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller are all documented attendees of kindergarten.
via The Institute For Figuring // Exhibition:INVENTING KINDERGARTEN.
