Abstract
One of the most popular Dutch educationel enlightenment authors was Heironymus van Alphen. His three volumes of Little Poems for Children published in 1778 en 1972 were extremely succesful, both in the Netherland and abroad. Inspired by the German poets Christian Felix Weisse and Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann, Van Alphen brought about an expansion of educational space based on the integration of moral education in the spirit of the educational ideas of Locke, Rousseau and the Philanthropinists with poetical ideas and the nature of the child in both the content and the form of his poems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Modes and meaning |
| Subtitle of host publication | Displays of evidence in education |
| Editors | Geert Thyssen, Karin Priem |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge, Taylor and Francis group |
| Chapter | 2 |
| Pages | 11-34 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-31-561779-4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-13-867010-5, 978-0-36-702292-1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- German and Dutch moral education
- late eighteenth-century
- Dutch poetry for children