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Johann Amos Comenius
He was one of the earliest authors to produce a text outlining a modern system of education for all children. He liked the idea of universal education and preferred nature over nurture. Believed children should learn through active means. -
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John Locke
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Jphn-Jacques Rousseau
Information on John-Jacques Rousseau
Children were innately perfect and optimal development would unfold naturally without the corrupting influence of some elements of society.
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Johann Amos Comenius
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John Locke
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John Heinrich Pestalozzi
Information on Pestalozzi
He worked to meet the needs of the welfare of poor children.
He had a holistic approach and worked directly with children.
Was proactive with mother/parents as the first teacher.
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Robert Owen
Fueled the British School Movement and liked the idea of schooling outside the home.
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John-Jacques Rousseau
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Friedrich Froebel
"Father of Kindergarten"
Believed that play based learning was key
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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Opened the first Kindergarten in Boston in 1859.
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John Heinrich Pestalozzi
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Robert Owen
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Friedrich Froebel
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Susan Blow
Implimented teaching and children's kindergarten programs across the US. Worked to make teachers educated to further the students and keep the movement of Kindergarten going. -
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G. Stanley Hall
First American to recieve a doctorate in Psychology.
Emphasized alligning educational curriculum with the stages of development.
Refined Froebel's methods.
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Margaret and Rachel McMillan
Open air nursery school -
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Caroline Pratt
Opened playschool in NY that taught children how to think
Intrinsic motivation -
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Patty Smith Hill
Designed child-centered interest-based methods that intergrated from ideas from Froebel.
Laid the foundation for NAEYC
Universal classrooms for all types of social classes -
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Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Founding memeber of the Bureau of Educational Experiments -
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Arnold Gesell
Student of Hall
Promoted parents as teachers and researchers
Promoted naturalistic observations -
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
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Jean Piaget
Studied children's cognative development
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Lev Vygotsky
Zone of proximal development
Private speech
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Susan Blow
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Erik Erickson
Developmental stage theory of socioemotional development
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G. Stanley Hall
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Jerome Bruner
Continues to build and refine ideas on how children think, process and store information and learn.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
Ecological Systems Theory -
Margaret McMillan
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Lev Vygotsky
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Patty Smith Hill
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Arnold Gesell
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Caroline Pratt
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Lucy Sprague Mitchell
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Jean Piaget
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
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Jerome Bruner
