Froebel College

Froebel College
University of Roehampton
Established 1892
Named for Friedrich Fröbel
Website http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/froebel/

Froebel College is one of the four constituent colleges of the University of Roehampton.

History

The college was founded as a teacher training college in 1892 by followers of Friedrich Fröbel. The Froebel Society had been formed in 1874 and in 1892 Julia Salis Schwabe led an initiative to found a college for training teachers. It was imperative that the trainee teachers should be allowed to practice whilst they were learning so a school/kindergarten was established in parallel.[1]

In 1975, the college became part of the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education (which later became the University of Roehampton).

Notable staff and alumni

  • Helena Rosa Wright (1887-1982) was a doctor and a pioneer in birth control[2]
  • Margaret Lowenfeld (1890-1973) was a pioneer in child psychology and psychotherapy[2]
  • Christie Ade Ajayi (born 1930), Nigerian specialist in early childhood education[3]
  • Prof Tina Bruce CBE is noted as the leading Froebelian educationalist in the UK from the late 1970s to the present day. Prof Tina Bruce has written and edited over 30 books on early childhood education topics, and regularly presents as the keynote speaker at national and international conferences.

References

  1. ↑ Froebel College, Aim25.ac.uk, Retrieved 5 September 2015
  2. 1 2 Cathy Urwin, ‘Lowenfeld, Margaret Frances Jane (1890–1973)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 4 Sept 2015
  3. ↑ Philomena Osazee Esigbemi Fayose, Nigerian Children's Literature in English, AENL Educational Publishers, p70

Coordinates: 51°27′21″N 0°14′46″W / 51.4557°N 0.2460°W / 51.4557; -0.2460

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