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Froebel conceived play inside his childhood gardens not only as a preparatory exercise for future adult activities but as a tool capable of sustaining and “watering” the “natural fertility of the soil” of the child’s receptive mind, so that new ideas could find a foothold, to let children grow rooted in the life of the universe, “just as a plant is rooted in the ground with its head facing upwards towards the light”. This essay also illustrates the development and establishment of the sandbox as a spatial and material tool, and how it has evolved thanks to the work of pioneers in nursery schooling.
Froebel conceived play inside his childhood gardens not only as a preparatory exercise for future adult activities but as a tool capable of sustaining and “watering” the “natural fertility of the soil” of the child’s receptive mind, so that new ideas could find a foothold, to let children grow rooted in the life of the universe, “just as a plant is rooted in the ground with its head facing upwards towards the light”. This essay also illustrates the development and establishment of the sandbox as a spatial and material tool, and how it has evolved thanks to the work of pioneers in nursery schooling.
The Infancy of the Sandbox
Tamar Zinguer (author)
2020
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
froebel , sandbox , giardino d’infanzia , doni , Architecture , NA1-9428
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