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Friedrich Froebel and informal education (581 words) |
 | Friedrich Froebel's enduring significance was through his formulation of the 'kindergarten system' with its emphasis on play and its use of 'gifts' (play materials) and 'occupations (activities). |
| As a result, Froebel sought to encourage the creation of educational environments that involved practical work and the direct use of materials. |
| Froebel's abiding influence has come in part from the efforts of followers such as Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow and the thinkers such as Diesterweg. |
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MSN Encarta - Froebel (385 words) |
| Froebel's teaching career was interrupted from 1813 to 1815 by service in the Prussian army and by work as an assistant in the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Berlin. |
| In spite of interest in Froebel's work by progressive educators, his ideas, which stressed encouraging the natural growth of a child through action or play, were too novel to be readily accepted by the public, and for a time he found it financially difficult to carry on his school. |
| Froebel is considered one of the greatest contributors of the 19th-century to the science of education. |
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