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The Transnational Roots of the Froebel Educational Institute, London

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Women, Power Relations, and Education in a Transnational World

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Abstract

Existing scholarly literature on the Froebel Educational Institute in London has been inconsistent and often incorrect about both the chronology of its founding and the timing of the adoption of Froebelian pedagogy by its driving force, Julie Schwabe. Drawing on numerous materials in German and Italian not used by anyone who has written about the FEI or Schwabe, especially the memoirs of Helene Klostermann (Schwabe’s companion and amanuensis from 1887–1896) and the correspondence of Italian politician and historian Pasquale Villari, this article corrects the early history of the FEI and highlights the transnational cross-fertilization of ideas behind this 125-year-old institution. Schwabe’s network included not only British and Italian women and men, but also Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow, the Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany, and Americans Caroline Marsh and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.

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Albisetti, J.C. (2020). The Transnational Roots of the Froebel Educational Institute, London. In: Mayer, C., Arredondo, A. (eds) Women, Power Relations, and Education in a Transnational World . Global Histories of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44935-3_7

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