The Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus was founded in 1882. It was one of the first institutions in

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which started to train early childhood teachers, as well as one of the first where women could get a professional training in

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. It practiced a belief in teaching children as individuals.

History

The institution was established in 1882 by

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. However, it was named after

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 ...

and another pedagogue,

Johann Pestalozzi Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (, ; 12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking r ...

. Henriette Schrader-Breymann emphasized "learning by doing", the kindergarten value of play, using nature as a theme and normal domestic tasks. The first Swedish kindergarten teachers were trained by

at the Pestalozzi-Fröbel Haus. Its influence in America began in 1880 when the '' American Journal of Education'' included a complimentary report. However these German ideas complemented the growing influence of American approaches suggested by

G. Stanley Hall Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1846 – April 24, 1924) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psy ...

and

Kate Douglas Wiggin Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856August 24, 1923) was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,'' and composed collections of children's ...

. Elizabeth Harrison of Chicago travelled to Berlin in 1889 to find out for herself about ideas she had seen practised by a German teacher. She used this trip to transform her nursery into the Chicago Kindergarten training College. In 1893, Americans saw these ideas when Annette Hamminck-Schepel supervised an exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair sponsored by the Berlin institution. The institution's influence spread to the United Kingdom when Caroline Bishop and Julia Lloyd both trained here. Lloyd was intermittently there from 1888 to 1896.Ruth Watts, ‘Lloyd, Julia (1867–1955)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 201
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Today

Today the organisation continues to train nursery school teachers.Pestalozzi Froebel Haus
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pestalozzi-Frobel-Haus 1882 establishments in Germany Schools in Berlin