ABSTRACT

Fredrich Froebel was a scientist, both in instinct and in training, and his life coincided with an important and dynamic period of scientific growth. I take this opportunity to delve both into some history and futurology to examine the heritage and legacy of his work. The usual of interpolation is of reading into data: where there exist some consistent trends within a broad set of data then the reader can reasonably infer the value of intervening points, to ‘read between the dots.' Here, I explore known features of Froebel's scientific life and then read – interpret – between the lines. Extrapolations, in turn, are inferences made beyond the data, surmises drawn from datum points already established. This is ‘informed speculation’. In the latter part of the paper, I run with some of Froebel's seminal ideas into the near future, peering forward for issues in science education that might plausibly have Froebelian antecedents.

摘要

Fredrich Froebel 是一位科学家，无论是在本能上还是在训练中，他的一生都恰逢科学发展的重要而充满活力的时期。我借此机会深入研究一些历史和未来学，以检查他工作的遗产和遗产。通常的插值是读入数据：如果在广泛的数据集中存在一些一致的趋势，那么读者可以合理地推断中间点的值，以“在点之间阅读”。在这里，我探索了福禄贝尔科学生活的已知特征，然后在字里行间阅读——解释——。反过来，外推是在数据之外做出的推论，是从已经建立的基准点中得出的推测。这是“有根据的推测”。在论文的后半部分，我将福禄贝尔的一些开创性想法带到不久的将来，