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Elizabeth Palmer Script And The Transcendentalist Activist

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Most Noted For Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was most known for her participation in the Transcendentalist movement, and as an American Educator who opened the first English-language Kindergarten in the United States.
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Biographical Information: Include life experiences that impacted thoughts and impact on education.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was surrounded by education from a young age. Peabody’s mother had created an innovative girls school in their home. Peabody also exhibited that same drive and curiosity for knowledge. In 1820, she opened a school in Lancaster, Massachusetts and another one in Boston two years later. In 1825, she opened yet another school in Brookline, Massachusetts where she met William Ellery Channing. …show more content…

She also believed that each student should receive training based on his or her abilities. Peabody had always been interested in early childhood education, stemming from her mother’s passion for teaching young children. She very much believed in the ideas and thoughts of German educator, Friedrich Froebel. Peabody was inspired by Friedrich Froebel’s, Common School Journal. Peabody states, “It begins to be realized in Europe as well as American, that Froebel’s idea of education, in making character the first thing, and knowledge the hand-maiden of goodness, is the desideraturn of the age, and promise of the millennium” (Gutek, …show more content…

One of the main criticisms of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody by other contemporaries was the fact that she was so outspoken and progressive of her ideas and beliefs. Another criticism came from later scholars and educators. The criticism was that the “early kindergarteners did not want to change the basic methodology and its inherent symbolism” (Gutek, 2014) as opposed to later reformers of the kindergarten.

Your Critique: What ideas or actions do you support or reject?
The writer was impressed by the practices and what all was accomplished by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, especially for the time in which she lived. The writer supports the efforts of Peabody to establish a kindergarten for early childhood education. Without the motivation and drive to reform the current practices of American education, there is no telling how that would have affected today’s current kindergarten education.

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