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Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University Volume 43
published_at 1992-12

Study of Frobel's Gifts (No.14) : miss introduce of Frobel's Playthings

フレーベルの愚物研究(第14報) : 「遊具」の誤導入について
Shoji Yasuhiro
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Friedrich Frobel breathed his last in 1852. After that, Bertha von Marenholz=Bulow began to be locked in battle against prohibition law of Kindergarten. For that purpose, she wrote a handbook ”Der Kindergarten. Handbuch der Frobelschen Erziehungsmethode, Spielgaben und Beschaftigungen. Nach Frobels Schriften und den Schriften der Frau B. von Marenholtz=Bulow” together with Hermann Goldammer at 1874. But, she had the diplomatic ability, not for all the world of practice. Her book had make a confusion in introduction of Frobel's gifts. This term 1870-1880, our Japanese Govemment had been searched texts for the first Kindergarten in Tokio. Japanese educators translated the book from Germany and USA. Afterthat, Marenholtz=Bulow had done rewrite work at 1887. That is coming a day after the confusion. In this reform term 1880-1890, our japanese Kindergatens hat yet developed from an independent stand-point against Frobels theory and methods. I think that an answer is here, why our teachers in Kindergartens make chirdren to do simultaneously, why they must make too holy to play for children. I think that Japanese military climate puted Frobel's Gifts in place of another.