If we could remember our joy when in childhood

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If we could remember our joy when in childhood

• Lian Higgins
• and
• Lynn McNair
• Cowgate under 5s Centre

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Froebels Principles

• Recognition of the uniqueness of each childs
  capacity and potential
• A holistic view of each childs development
• An ecological view of mankind in the natural
  world
• A recognition of the integrity of childhood in
  its own right
• A recognition of the child as part of the
  community

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Recognition of the uniqueness of each childs
capacity and potential
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A holistic view of each childs development

• Real tools make fingers skilful (De Lissa,
  1949)

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Childrens Voices

• On consulting the children on how the workbench
  should be designed they said
• Madeline thought the tools should be down, down,
  down on the table, maybe under
• Robert thinks I think they should be up Leo and
  Sophia agree.
• Robert thinks the wood should be underneath.
• Alfie thinks it should shave its own legs and
  it should open and shutthe tools should hang
  up
• Alfie added I am very happy they will be real
  tools.

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An ecological view of mankind in the natural world
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Childrens Voices

• On consulting the children on ecological issues
  they stated many facts / concerns here are a some
  quotes
• The world is all our homes (Beth)
• I always see cigarettes thrown on the ground by
  other people (Harris)
• The worms might eat the egg shells that we leave
  from the eggs (Liam)
• If you recycle the bits of old crumpled up paper
  you can make new paper instead of cutting down
  trees (Celeste)

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A recognition of the integrity of childhood in
its own right
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A recognition of the child as part of the
community
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Thank you for listeninga final word

• Consider the memory from Tom Smidt, Chief
  Executive of the Eden Project
• My childhood was rich in smells, noises, warmth
  and little frissons of terror mostly of my own
  making. I climbed trees with daring but was
  hugely frightened. I lifted stones wherever I
  went in order to inhale the smell of moist earth
  and the slightly lemony smell of crushed bracken.
  My thrills were slow worms and toads. There was
  a pond dipping and racing water boatmen, catching
  sticklebacks and grazing my knees falling off
  bicycles and out of treesOften I took my shoes
  off and loved the tickly feeling of cut grass,
  the swishy feeling of long grass, the
  irresistible roughness of hard sand and the
  exotic caress of dry sand but most of all there
  was mud. How glorious to let it squidge through
  your toes! And peeling it off when it dried was
  another sensation altogether.
• (Smidt, cited in Rich et al 2005 6).

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