? The education he advocates is the education of pursuing life, he said
Froebel believes that people are the starting point and the end result of all teaching work, and education must meet the requirements of human nature and promote the independent development of children's nature.
So how should we start education? Froebel pointed out that in the process of raising, developing and educating children, we should first consider their nature, life and energy, and understanding children is the premise of all education.
Parents and teachers know their children, then educate them and promote their development through education. But this kind of promotion is not to promote the development of children's nature through external forces, not just to impart knowledge, but to feel and experience themselves through their own efforts, so that children can know themselves and realize their own natural development, which is a bit like the duty of psychological counselors to "help others and help themselves".
Froebel pays attention to the inner development of children and attaches great importance to the combination of education and real life. He believes that there are many opportunities available in education and teaching activities. No matter where you are, there will always be its unique life content. If these opportunities are correctly grasped, teaching will penetrate into children's lives and life will enter teaching.
Just like this epidemic, although the mode of "staying at home" has many disadvantages for learning, on the other hand, if we consider children's lives and choose life education, disaster education and ordinary hero stories, why can't health education and life ability education have better educational effects? Of course, I only consider it from an idealized point of view, which is worth further discussion. )
What kind of living environment makes what kind of thoughts? Froebel's childhood was very lonely. In order to seek some possible pleasures in life, he spent a lot of time in his garden, so he was very interested in nature very early. This laid the foundation for his thought of "natural education".
In his view, education must help children love and know nature, let them get in touch with nature more, feel nature, understand the law of natural development, and learn to live in harmony with nature. He advocates taking these contents as one of the main contents of school education, so as to develop the existing cognitive ability, thinking ability and mathematical ability.
Froebel's thought of conforming to nature actually has two meanings, one is nature, the other is children's nature, that is, children's physical and psychological characteristics.
Love to play is children's nature, but many people regard it as a dispensable activity, and think that games are just a waste of children's time, and they should be allowed to engage in some "serious things". In Froebel, I saw that the game was the highest stage of children's development and human development in this period, because it was the spontaneous expression of inner essence. Games give people happiness, freedom, satisfaction, internal and external peace, and peaceful coexistence with the surrounding world. The root of all beauty lies in it, comes from it and comes from it. Games are the needs of children's spiritual development, and the satisfaction gained in games will benefit children for life. So he established a curriculum system with activities and games as the core in kindergarten: kindness and homework.
Froebel's unique views and persistent educational beliefs have infected countless people. While learning from his wisdom, we have to admit that only by thinking and practicing on the basis of love can we gain something.