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Professor Tina Bruce appointed CBE
Professor Tina Bruce, Visiting Professor of Early Childhood Studies at Roehampton University has been appointed CBE in the New Year's Honours List 'for services to Early Years Education'.Tina Bruce, a member of the Research Committee of the Froebel Educational Institute and a trustee of the National Froebel Foundation, originally studied at the Froebel Institute (now, as Froebel College, part of Roehampton University).
She has written or edited 29 books, and is perhaps best known for the 'ten principles of early childhood education' first published in 1987 in her book Early Childhood Education (Hodder & Stoughton currently in its 3rd edition). She also co-presented the popular Radio 4 series Tuning in to Children with Kirsty Wark.
She has, for ten years, worked with successive Ministers for Children as Co ordinator of the Early Years Advisory Group, and is or has been Early Years adviser to more than 100 local education authorities, schools and centres across the UK.
She co-founded the Early Childhood Research Centre at Roehampton University, and as an educator she is guided by Froebelian principles, being known for her ability to interweave theory and practice in creative and challenging ways.
This is an honour well-deserved!
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/news/CBE.html
Publication of memoir by Joachim Liebschner, 'Iron Cross Roads'.
Many will know Joachim Liebschner as the author of two distinguished books on Froebel – A Child’s Work: Freedom and Guidance in Froebel’s Educational Theory and Practice, and Foundations of Progressive Education.
His new book, Iron Cross Roads, is a gripping memoir of his life in pre-war Germany, his involvement in the Hitler Youth, service in the German armed forces, award of the Iron Cross while still a teenager, experiences as a prisoner of war of the Americans and then the British, life in postwar Germany, meeting and marrying his English wife, training as a schoolteacher, discovering Froebel, and becoming the foremost Froebel scholar of his generation.
Nearly 100 invited guests attended a lunchtime event organised by the trustees of the National Froebel Foundation on January 2007 at Froebel College London to celebrate the publication of Iron Cross Roads.
Joachim Liebschner with Raleigh Trevelyan, author of The Fortress
Listening to Joachim Liebschner's address
Joachim Liebschner addressing the company
Joachim Liebschner with Franciska Bayliss, Chair of the NFF and of the IFS
Joachim Liebschner with trustees of the NFF
The Childcare Bill
The Froebel Research Committee received a very useful critical evaluation of the provisions of the Childcare Bill (which is due to become law in the UK in autumn 2006) in the context of post-war UK legislation, from Peter Elfer, a Senior Lecturer at Roehampton University. It is called From Poor Law to Partnership, from Welfare State to Family State?
