Friedrich Fröbel, the Profession of Kindergarten Teacher and the Bourgeois Women's Movement

Abstract

The (socio)-historical studies and discussions of the past few years on the genesis and development of social professions have revealed the bourgeois women's movement to have had a significant influence—indeed it seems to have been the driving force in the genesis of social service professions and the corresponding courses of instruction.1 Of course these are not new discoveries. Especially for those who had been trained for a social service profession and had their first professional experience during the Weimar period, this was all history experienced firsthand. But historical reassessments are also always effected from the standpoint of a changed framework of perceptions, which can lead to new approaches and interpretations.