Helge Wasmuth is Associate Professor in the Department of Childhood Education at Mercy College, USA.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Friedrich Fröbel and his pedagogy of kindergarten and play

Chapter 1: Friedrich Fröbel on his way of becoming an educator of young children

Chapter 2: The Invention of Kindergarten

Chapter 3: The Challenge of Finding the "Authentic" Fröbel and Translating his Work

Chapter 4: Fröbel's worldview and his pedagogy of kindergarten and play

Part II: The Fröbelianer and their modification of Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play

Chapter 5: The organizational development of the Fröbel movement

Chapter 6: The evolution of Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play

Part III: How kindergarten came to the United States

Chapter 7: The kindergarten movement in the US and the openness to Fröbel

Chapter 8: The transfer of Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play to the US

Chapter 9: Conclusion: The history of Fröbel's pedagogy of kindergarten and play and its modification

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