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The Harmony of Human Life: An exploration of the ideas of Pestalozzi and Froebel in relation to music education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Sue Kendall
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Pestalozzi and Froebel were innovatory educators whose influence has spread widely and stood the test of time. They believed education to be a process of drawing out and exercising a child's own powers in order to achieve the fullest possible development of the whole person. Physical, intellectual, emotional and aesthetic capacities would only be developed effectively in interdependence rather than isolation, the child being essentially an active participant in his/her own education. In this article the principles and values which Pestalozzi and Froebel believed to befundamental to sound education are related to the task of teaching in general, to the teaching of music in particular, and to music as a unique medium of education through which those principles may be demonstrated.

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Research Article
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 35 - 48
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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