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John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius was the first author to create a picture book for children, Orbis Pictures, translating in english to The World in Pictures. He believed that education should be taught at a young age through his or her senses because sensory education is the basis of all learning. -
John Locke
John Locke believed that children started off as a "blank tablet" or a blank slate. He believed that children become who they are through expierences and the environment that they grow up in. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that children should recieve natural education, meaning letting them grow without interference or restrictions. He also developed the idea of unfolding, where children development due to their "innate timetables". -
Robert Owen
Robert Owen believed that environment has a huge impact on children through thier beliefes, behaviors and achievements. He also believed that society had a big impact as well in determining a child's character and who they were. In 1816 he opened his own school for children ten to eighteen, this had an influence on the opening on an infant school in 1818. -
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori developed the Montessori method, to teach children. The method was sensory based and she believed that knowledge comes from sensory expierences and she developed learning materials to help teach young kids. Now, there are hundreds of Montessori schools across the country. -
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget devleoped stages for cognitive developement. These stages were Sensorimotor Stage (birth to 2 years), Preoperational Stage (2 to 7 years), and Concrete Opertations Stage (7 to 17 years). He believed that children gain intelligence and knowledge through direct expierences. He also believed that children build off old expierences to adapt new ones. -
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Urie Bronfenbrenner developed five systems of relationships with environments that help determine a child's developemnt. These systems are micosystems (where children mostly spend their time, such as with parents, at school, at home, etc), mesosystems (interactions between multiple microsystems), exosystems (places where children don't have direct interaction with, but it still effects them), macrosystems (cultures, customs, values) and chronosustems (environmental influences, ex. technology) -
Economic Oppurtunity Act
The economic Oppurtunity Act developed programs to improve "health, education and general welfare of people who had a low socioeconomic status". It helped put these people in jobs, so that they could be successful. This lead to the start of Head Start in 1965 to continue helping with poverty, which is still running -
The Education of All Handicapped Children Act
The Education of All Handicapped Children Act made all states create and follow through policies that give handicapped children a free equal and appropriate education. If they don't, then school would not longer recieve federal funding. This gave handicapped children a chance to go to public schools and let their parents know they were recieving the education they need and deserve. -
No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act provides state schools with funding that meet standards that they set up. Their standards include what they feel that students should know and do at a certain level. They determine this through standarized testing.
