Publications and links
the kindergarten community
Links
Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington)
New Zealand’s national documentary heritage collections, including both published and unpublished items. The largest collection of the Wellington Kindergarten Association material is deposited here.
https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/alexander-turnbull-library-collections
Archive New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga (Wellington)
Archives New Zealand hold the archives of New Zealand government, including many national treasures.
Auckland City Library - Sir George Grey Collection
Holds Auckland Kindergarten Association Collection.
http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/heritage/sirgeorgegrey/Pages/sirgeorgegrey.aspx
Auckland War Memorial Museum
The Auckland War Memorial Museum is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials. Its collections concentrate on New Zealand history, natural history, as well as military history.
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research
Christchurch Public Library – Online Collection
The library website contains unique content about Christchurch and Canterbury.
http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/your-digital-library/
Hocken Collections of the University of Otago Library (Dunedin)
The Hocken Collections is a research library, historical archive and art gallery. It holds Dunedin Kindergarten Association Archives.
www.otago.ac.nz/library/hocken
National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa (Wellington)
The National Library of New Zealand is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations"
Papers Past – National Library of New Zealand
A collection of digitised historic New Zealand newspapers which offers browsing and full text searching.
AtoJs Online – National Library of New Zealand
This website contains digitised reports from selected volumes of the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives and the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives.
DigitalNZ Ā-Tihi O Aotearoa - National Library of New Zealand
This website aims to help to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share, and use.
NZEI Te Riu Roa Heritage
NZEI Heritage presents a showcase of the history of the New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu Roa and of education in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
A comprehensive guide to the country’s peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/who-is-te-ara
Te Ara - Biographies
This section of Te Ara contains biographies of people who have 'made their mark' on New Zealand. It does not include people who are alive. It includes all the biographies formerly available at www.dnzb.govt.nz. All of the biographies originally published in the printed Dictionary of New Zealand Biographyseries between 1990 and 2000, and in the parallel Maori-language series, Nga Tangata Taumata Rau, are included here. The biographies have been published as they appeared in the printed version, with a small number of minor corrections.
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/teara-biographies
Te Papa - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is the national museum and art gallery of New Zealand, located in Wellington. Collections Online has information on over 500,000 artworks, objects and specimens from Te Papa’s collections.
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
Upper Hutt City Library
Holds an extensive collection relating to kindergarten in Upper Hutt.
YouTube
Te Whāriki Turns Twenty, NZEI Te Riu Roa, February 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJOv5U3J7VQ&feature=youtu.be
N.B Archival records are also held in many kindergarten associations and individal kindergartens and schools. Local libraries, universities and regional museums may also hold items or records of interest.
International links
International Froebel Society - http://www.ifsfroebel.com
International Fröbel Society, Deutschland - http://www.froebelsociety.de
Friedrich-Fröbel Museum, Bad Blankenburg Germany - http://froebel-museum.de/pages/de/startseite.php
Including original texts - http://www.friedrich-froebel-online.de/d-o-w-n-l-o-a-d/original-texte-von-fröbel/
Fröbel Systems Germany - http://froebelsystems.de
Das Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus, Berlin, Germany - http://www.pfh-berlin.de
Staatsbibliotethek zu Berlin, Germany - http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education - http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kindergarten-narratives-on-froebelian-education-9781474254458/
Helen May is the co-editor and an author in a new book on transnational investigations into kindergarten written as a tribute the Froebelian scholar Kevin Brehony who died in 2013. The volume brings together the top international scholars on kindergarten and Froebelian education and includes two New Zealand chapters: Kerry Bethell’s biographical chapter on two Froebel trained infant school mistresses in Wellington in the early 20th century and Helen’s May’s own chapter on the Dunedin’s colonial kindergarten story.
There is an extensive collection of kindergarten books and documents in the catalogue although some are noted as having been lost in the second world war - http://stabikat.de/CHARSET=UTF-8/DB=1/LNG=DU/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1016&SRT=YOP&TRM=kindergarten
The Froebel Trust (UK) - http://www.froebel.org.uk
Froebel Archive for Childhood Studies, Roehampton University, London - http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Froebel_archive.aspx
Including the Froebel Archive Digital Collection - http://studentzone.roehampton.ac.uk/library/digital-collection/froebel-archive/
British Library London, UK - http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1450007815831&vid=BLVU1&fromLogin=true
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada. Collection of kindergarten historical artefacts and playthings - http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search?q=kindergarten
The Froebel Education Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - http://www.froebel.com
Froebel USA. Documentary film 2015 - http://froebelusa.org
Archive Library data base - http://www.froebelfoundation.org/biblio.html
Froebel toys - http://froebelusa.com
Froebel USA film clips on Froebel toys - https://www.youtube.com/user/Redhenllc
Wheelock College Boston, US. Established as a Kindergarten Training School in 1893 - http://endeavor.flo.org/vwebv/search?searchType=1&searchArg=kindergarten&recCount=50&HIST=1&searchCode=GKEY%5E*
Including Wheelock College Library archives - http://www.wheelock.edu/library/resources/archives
The Japanese Society for the Study of Pestalozzi and Froebel, Japan - http://www.naruto-u.ac.jp/facultystaff/hyuji/jsspf/index.html
Kindergarten Union Children’s Services Australia - https://www.ku.com.au/about/history.aspx