Froebel College
| Froebel College | |
|---|---|
| University of Roehampton | |
| Location | Roehampton, London, England |
| Established | 1892 |
| Named for | Friedrich Fröbel |
| Website | https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/colleges/froebel-college/ |
Froebel College is one of the four constituent colleges of the University of Roehampton.
History
The college was founded as a women's 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] The college became coeducational in 1965.[2]
In 1975, the college became part of the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, which became Roehampton University in 2004.
People associated with the college
Notable alumna
- Christie Ade Ajayi (born 1930), Nigerian specialist in early childhood education[3]
Notable alumnae of the kindergarten
- Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) was a doctor and a pioneer in birth control[4]
- Margaret Lowenfeld (1890–1973) was a pioneer in child psychology and psychotherapy[4]
References
- ^ Froebel College, Aim25.ac.uk, Retrieved 5 September 2015
- ^ Weston, Peter (2002). The Froebel Educational Institute: The Origins and History of the College. London: Roehampton University. p. 91. ISBN 1902743458.
- ^ Philomena Osazee Esigbemi Fayose, Nigerian Children's Literature in English, AENL Educational Publishers, p70
- ^ a b Cathy Urwin, ‘Lowenfeld, Margaret Frances Jane (1890–1973)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 4 Sept 2015
External links
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