Jiaqi Li, Xiaogeng Li

Xiaogeng Li

28 December 2023

Friedrich Wilhelm Frobel, Game, Early childhood education

The deepening reform of preschool education in the new era, the emergence of numerous early childhood education institutions, and the increasing importance of early childhood education are important opportunities for the revitalization of Friedrich Wilhelm Frobel's game education philosophy. Frobel was the first person to articulate the functionality and value of games. Using literature research and historical research methods, and combining Chinese and foreign research results, this study explores Frobel's educational exploration from his youth, adolescence, middle age to old age, as well as his learning and teaching methods, publication of the book "Die Menschenerziehung", and educational practice of opening kindergartens. It is found that his ideas have gone through three stages of "germination, formation, and development". In Flobel’s view, education conforms to the principles of nature, early education is crucial, games are important means, and family education is required, containing important implications for the artistic potential, physical, mental, and sensory development of young children, as well as the goals of early childhood education.

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