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Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something Froebel? The development of origami in early childhood education in Japan.
- Source :
- Paedagogica Historica; Aug2019, Vol. 55 Issue 4, p529-547, 19p, 2 Color Photographs, 1 Diagram
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This study examines how origami has been implemented, practised, and developed in the early childhood education of Japan over the past 140 years. Historically speaking, paper-folding has been part of Japanese symbolic art, craft culture, and religious ceremonial artefacts since paper and paper-folding techniques were first imported from China during the seventh century. By the eighteenth century, paper-folding provided a form of mass entertainment in Japanese society. During the 1870s, paper-folding was dramatically transformed into a pedagogical tool within Japanese kindergartens after Friedrich Froebel's (1782–1852) kindergarten system and its curriculum was transferred to Japan from the West. "Papier-Falten" (paper-folding) comprised an element of Froebel's Occupations – which was a series of handiwork activities – in his kindergarten curriculum, whereby various folding techniques and models were derived from European traditional paper-folding and introduced into a Japanese kindergarten curriculum that was associated with the concept of Froebel's kindergarten. Particularly seen in early childhood education in Japan, what we now call origami developed as a new form of paper-folding. This gradually emerged through the marriage of Western (German) and Eastern (Japanese) paper-folding cultures. The study highlights the benefits and uniqueness of cultural transmission and transformation when developing origami in early childhood education in Japan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00309230
- Volume :
- 55
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Paedagogica Historica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137319281
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2018.1546330