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Froebel's Occupations
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin

FROEBELS OCCUPATIONS BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working CARLYLE The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them not merely industrious, but to love industry. RUSKIN BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY... more » tx ttftetfibe pretf Cambridge Copyright, 1896, BY KATE DOUGLAS RIGGB AND KORA ARCHIBALD SMITH. All rights reserved. CONTENTS THE KINDERGARTEN GIFTS AND Occur ATIONS CON SIDERED AS A WHOLE .... ... 1 PERFORATING 24 SEWING 40 DRAWING ......... 62 LINEAR DRAWING 69 A HANDFUL OF SIMILES ON DICTATION VERSUS IN VENTION ......... 89 OBJECTIONS TO LJNEAK, DRAWING 91 OUTLINE DRAWING 98 CIRCULAR DRAWING Ill FREEHAND AND NATURE DRAWING .... 125 THE THREAD GAME 141 PAPER INTERLACING ....... 148 SLAT INTERLACING ........ 156 WEAVING 166 PAPER CUTTING 192 PAPER FOLDING 214 PEAS WORK 241 CLAY MODELING 253 MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS 273 SAND WORK 290 REMARKS ON THE OCCUPATIONS . . . 309 SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF THE GIFTS AND OCCUPATIONS SHOWING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE KINDEBGARTKN AND SCHOOL. Mme. A. de Portugal. FROEBELS OCCUPATIONS THE KINDERGARTEN GIFTS AND OCCU PATIONS CONSIDERED AS A WHOLE These employments aim at and produce, first of all, in man, an all-sided development and presentation of his nature they are, in general, the needful food for the spirit they are the ether in which the spirit breathes and lives that it may gain power, strength, and, I might add, extent, because the spiritual qualities given by God to man, which proceed from his spirit in all directions with irresistible necessity, necessarily appear as manif oldness, and must be satisfied as such, and met in manifold directions. 1 THE gifts, occupations, and recreative exercises of the kindergarten were devised by , , . . i Tools of the Froebel to satisfy what he terms the Kindergar-. . iii en fctfofy eight instinctive activities of the child, instincts of n f i Childhood. for play, for producing, for shaping, for knowledge, for society, and for cultivating the ground. Professor William James, with some what differing insight, divides the instincts of children into four, which he considers funda mental, namely, construction, imitation, emula-1 Froebels Education of Man, page 209 tr. by J. Jwrvis. 2 KINDERGARTEN GIFTS AND OCCUPATIONS tion, and ownership. These also are satisfied in the kindergarten, though we endeavor to trans late emulation into aspiration, and overweening desire for private ownership into a willingness and an ability to use all possessions for the com mon good. It cannot but be seen that although the gifts Their Domi-and occupations of the kindergarten nantPur-1 1,1 f i pose. appeal to numberless minor needs a-nd desires of the child, their dominant purpose is the development of creative self - activity, and that while they serve to interpret the external world to him, they at the same time give adequate ex pression to his internal world. It is in his con ception of the value of creative activity, of the essential relation of impression and expression, of the beauty and spiritual meaning of true work, of production, that Froebel differentiates himself from all other educators. In that wonderful volume of his letters, which discloses on every page his lofty enthusiasm, his devotion, patience, courage, self-sacrifice, single mindedness, his inspiration, in fact, for such indeed it was, are the following words in rela tion to the instrumentalities of the kindergarten, and we give them entire as a commentary upon the man and his work I mean that we shall be borne onward into the very heart of practical Christianity through these games and occupations of little children, CONSIDERED AS A WHOLE 3 which we are contriving with such attention, loving care, inward watchfulness, and outward work...

ISBN-13: 9781406707076
ISBN-10: 1406707074
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 324
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Publisher: Cooper Press
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