The National Froebel Foundation (NFF) was a foundation which validated examinations and set standards for teaching training courses at pre-school level in the United Kingdom. Named after German educator
Friedrich Fröbel
Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel or Froebel (; 21 April 1782 – 21 June 1852) was a German pedagogue, a student of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique need ...
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it began in two separate bodies; the Froebel Society of 1874 and the National Froebel Union of 1887. In 1938 the two merged to form the National Froebel Foundation. The National Froebel Foundation continued until 2012 when it merged with the Froebel Educational Institute to form th
Froebel Trust The Froebel Trust continues as the UK's charity for the promotion of Froebelian education, funding research, training and educational conferences in the UK and outreach work overseas. The NFF's practitioner network continues as th
National Froebel Network
Froebel Society
Professor
Joseph Payne and
Caroline Bishop are credited with founding the London Froebel Society.
It was started in 1874 with
Adelaide Manning
Elizabeth Adelaide Manning (1828 – 10 August 1905) was a British writer and editor. She championed kindergartens. She was one of the first students to attend Girton College. Manning was active for the National Indian Association which champi ...
amongst the early members. Caroline Bishop was advising the School board on the use of Kindergarten methods and Manning presented a paper on the same subject. The following year the society became national.
Its first President was Beata Doreck (1833–1875), an educationist from
Mannheim
Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...
Emily Shirreff
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff (3 November 1814 – 20 March 1897) was a pioneer in the movement for the higher education of women and the development of the Froebelian principles in England.
Biography
Family
She was born on 3 November 1814, the se ...
was elected President in 1876, and continued for the rest of her life; she died in 1895. Later, in 1932,
John Howard Whitehouse
John Howard Whitehouse (1873–1955) was the founder and first Warden of Bembridge School on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, and a Member of Parliament. His father, George Whitehouse, was a Quaker and an uncompromising Gladstonian Liberal wh ...
was President.
References
External links
Froebel TrustFroebel Network
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Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom