Lectures in the Training Schools for Kindergartners.
Peabody, Elizabeth P. Lectures in the Training Schools For Kindergartners. Boston: D.C. Heath & Company, 1886.
8vo.; comtemporary ownership signature ("Laliah B. Pringree") on front free endpaper; burgundy cloth, tips lightly bumped and rubbed; spine slightly worn; essentially a fine copy.
First edition of Peabody’s fifth, and last, book.
Although Peabody’s contributions to educational methodologies were prodigious, her most notable achievement came when she met Margarethe Mayer Schurz and her daughter Agatha in 1859. Schurz introduced her to Freidrich Froebel’s kindergarten movement in Germany, which sought to reform infant and preliminary education by developing a curriculum that made methodical use of games and toys to stimulate learning. Influenced by Froebel’s theories, Peabody opened the first formally structured American kindergarten in 1860 on Pinckney Street in Boston. As a means of garnering support, she founded the journal Kindergarten Messenger and the American Froebel Union. Through the Union’s sponsorship, Peabody was able to recruit from Europe several Froebel-trained kindergarten teachers, who were instrumental in establishing kindergartens throughout the United States.
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