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This free course was written by Dr Joanne Josephidou, Dr Nicola Kemp and Polly Bolshaw.
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Introduction
Course image: courtesy: Jo Josephidou
Froebel Trust Logo: © Froebel Trust
Course badge: © The Open University
Week 1
Figure 1: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/ history-baby-cage-1934-1948/
Section 1 image: © LSOphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus
Section 2 image: © Dollydoll29/Shutterstock.com
Figure 2: https://wellcomecollection.org/ works/ n4m9j4xv
Section 3 image: © Kemal Yildirim/Getty Images
Section 3.1 image: Creative Commons CC0/ https://pxhere.com
Section 3.2 image: © mapodile/Getty Images
Section 3.3 image: Creative Commons CC0 https://pxhere.com/ en/ photo/ 602870
Figure 3: © Yuliya Taba/Getty Images
Timeline of key thinkers
Jean- Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Jean-Jacques_Rousseau#/ media/ File:Jean-Jacques_Rousseau_(painted_portrait).jpg
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746-1827: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Johann_Heinrich_Pestalozzi#/ media/ File:Johann_Heinrich_Pestalozzi_(Real_Academia_de_Bellas_Artes_de_San_Fernando,_Madrid).jpg
Friedrich Froebel 1782-1852: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel#/ media/ File:Frederick-Froebel-Bardeen.jpeg
Charlotte Mason 1842-1923: https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/ File:Charlotte_Mason.jpg
Margaret and Rachel McMillan 1860-1931: https://blogs.gre.ac.uk/ universityarchive/ tag/ mcmillan-sisters/
Week 2
Figure 1: https://pixabay.com/ photos/ baby-play-toys-baby-toys-kids-toys-921293/
Section 1 image: https://pixabay.com/ photos/ boy-childhood-steps-ted
Section 2 image: © Bplanet/Shutterstock.com
Figure 2: courtesy: Rachel McMillan Nursery School https://www.rachelmcmillannursery.co.uk/index.asp
Figure 3: courtesy: Chelsea Open Air Nursery School. https://www.coans.rbkc.sch.uk/ about-us/
Figure 4: Daniel Farrell in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/
Week 3
Figure 1: Image © Unidentified
Figure 2: book cover Froebel’s seminal work The Education of Man
Figure 4: Courtesy Froebel Trust https://www.froebel.org.uk/ https://www.froebel.org.uk/ uploads/ documents/ Froebelian-Principles-Poster-version-with-a-white-backbround.pdf
Figure 5: Photo by Nicola Kemp at Froebel Archive for Childhood Studies, Foyle Special Collections and Archives, University of Roehampton.
Week 4
Figure 1: chadlandman/Pixabay
Figure 2: © Melpomenem/Getty Images
Section 2 image: © tatyana_tomsickova/istock/Getty Images Plus
Figure 3: © Zhuravlev Andrey/Shutterstock
Figure 4: © Yanya/Shutterstock
Section 2.2 images: © Anna Barash/Shutterstock; © Marlon Lopez MMG1 Design; © Photobac/Shutterstock.com; © Christie Cooper/Shutterstock.com
Figure 5: Courtesy Dimples Day Nursery https://www.dimplesnursery.co.uk
Week 5
Figure 1: © Mhadirb/Shutterstock.com
Figure 2:. Courtesy: Lucy Fogg
Figure 3: © Viktory 6/Shutterstock.com
Figure 4: © Olena Gaidarzhy/Shutterstock
Slideshow: images: 1/8/9/10/11/12: courtesy © Polly Bolshaw; 2/3/4/5/6/7: courtesy: © Top of the hill Preschool https://topofthehillpreschool.co.uk/
Week 6
Figure 1: Courtesy © Jo Josephidou
Figures 2 and 3: Courtesy © Nicola Kemp
Figure 4: Man’s Twelve Senses in Their Relation to Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition in Man’s Twelve Senses in Their Relation to Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition by Rudolf Steiner Online Waldorf Library
Figure 5: Courtesy © Nicola Kemp
Figure 6: Courtesy © Jo Josephidou
Week 7
Figure 1: Courtesy Jo Josephidou
Figure 2: Courtesy Jo Josephidou
Section 3 image. Courtesy Jo Josehpidou
Week 8
Figure 1: © Erdark/Getty Images
Section 6 image: Archie Binamira/Pexels
Audio-visual
Week 2
Video: Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? TED Talk Alison Gopnik: What do babies think? | TED Talk Creative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International — CC BY-ND 4.0
Week 5
Video: Schemas – in and out with Liam: Used under licence: ©Siren Films Child Development video based training - Siren Films
Week 6
Video: Ko plays in the Park used under Licence Siren films https://www.sirenfilms.co.uk/
Week 7
Video: Do you know all SDGs? courtesy: United Nations https://www.un.org/en/
Video: United Nations Sustainable Goals Building the Future. Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=afRqLpfSYHo courtesy: UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight
Video: Incremental Development: courtesy https://naturalearning.org/