Freedom to Learn
The holistic importance of children’s ownership of their play.
Froebelian Principles and their Impact on Practice
Can Freedom be Guided?
Having the Freedom to Bake!
Building a shared understanding of Freedom with Guidance
Outdoor and free-flow play at non-formal educational settings
Η φύση καλεί / Natural calls… Are the children used to hearing natural sounds?
Froebel in Nature: past, present, futures
What affordances in our past, present and future can spur us on to go further and deeper with children...
Our Froebelian Practice: Nature Kindergarten at Cowgate Under 5s
An immersive look at a uniquely Froebelian approach to nature-based learning and play at Cowgate Under 5s, Edinburgh. Download...
Freedom with guidance, under pressure
Our Froebelian Practice: Block play at Cowgate Under 5s
An introduction to block play at Cowgate Under 5s, and its central role in our Froebelian pedagogy – supporting...
Jayne White – Dialogic Pedagogy
Part of the Froebelian Futures in conversation series – Dialogic pedagogy is underpinned by an attitude towards teaching that...
Bringing animals into the life of the nursery
Our Froebelian Practice: Food at Cowgate Under 5s
A short film about how Froebelian pedagogy takes shape in the way children and staff play and engage with...
The use of Block Play as symbolic representation
My practitioner inquiry – clay in nature
Early years practitioner, Rebecca Innes, researches the connections between clay, nature and freedom with guidance in her Edinburgh setting....
‘Mealtime Experience’
Shaping our world through woodwork
Community Songs Around the Fire
The Balance Between Play and Routine
And ‘sew’ it begins…
Cowgate Under 5s – an introduction
An introduction to practice and the environment at Cowgate Under 5s, the national practice hub of Froebelian Futures –...
Stickland: Cowgate Under 5s original nature kindergarten
“Stickland” was the name given by children at Cowgate Under 5s to the woodland and fields at Bonaly, Edinburgh,...