International Education Series. Part 3 Froebel and Nursery Education

*The International Education Series* brings together the best Western writings upon educational subjects from ancient times to the First World War. The range of writings cover practical, theoretical and historical education. Taken together these historical and critical texts provide a theoretical framework for the practice of teaching. Many of these texts are very uncommon and are useful today to historians of education, social history and educationalists. Originally published between 1890 and 1915, the series was devised and edited by William Torrey Harris (1835-1909), United States Commissioner of Education. Harris wrote on philosophy, and in particular Hegel and Hegelianism, as well as being a prominent educationalist. He was an active public lecturer, leader of the St Louis movement, editor of Webster's *Dictionary* and of America's first regular journal devoted to philosophy (*Journal of Speculative Philosophy*, 1867-93), and author of some 500 articles. For this important series, Harris provided introductions, analyses and commentaries to the individual volumes. *Froebel and Nursery Education* is the third collection in the series. Focused on Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852), the German philosopher of education most famous for starting the kindergarten movement, the set gathers 10 volumes on the early education of children, including translations of some of Froebel's most important writings, expositions of Froebel's philosophy by others, and other notable authors on the development of the young child. -includes now rare volumes from the turn-of-the-century *International Education Series* -early twentieth-century ideas on the theory and practice of education -most important classic American series on education made available together for the first time