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This free course was written by Dr Joanne Josephidou, Dr Nicola Kemp and Polly Bolshaw.

The authors are grateful to Professor Tina Bruce, John Parry and Dr Sacha Powell who acted as critical readers.

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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/