ABSTRACT
The group members are participants in the Edinburgh Froebel Network and include teachers, practitioners and lecturers from a variety of settings in the voluntary, private, independent, maintained and further and higher education sectors. One owner travelled from Aberdeenshire to take part in the group. Edinburgh was a fertile seedbed for the germination of a Froebelian approach to early childhood education through shared training. There were five nursery heads who had already worked collaboratively for some time and who articulated their practice as being based on Froebelian principles integrated with Froebelian practices. In 2011, the first cohort completed the course Froebel in Childhood Practice at the University of Edinburgh. After 2 years' intake of the established course and well-attended annual conferences, former students expressed a desire for further continued professional development based on Froebelian approaches.
