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Jan 1, 1546
People start learning how to read.
Martin Luther believed that everyone could learn how to read the Bible. This caused the Protestant Reformation and people started to learn how to read in their own languages. -
Education should begin at a young age.
John Amos Comenius believed that education begins at the early ages. He is also famous for comparing development and education to a plant. -
Experiences on Brain Development
John Locke believed the the brain was like a blank tablet and that experiences within our enviroment and our relationships with caregivers and parents stimulated the development of the brain. -
Appropriate Practices & Meeting the Developmental Needs of Children.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a supporter of natural practices. He belived that children learned through unfolding and that they developed on their own time schedule. Rousseau is a big part of the appropriate practcies regarding development that we use today. -
Sensory becomes a part of education
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi believed that sensory and seeing things played a big part in the development of learning. This belief in sensory will come into play later on in history when developmental stages are further defined. -
Activies and Play come into Education
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel as known as the founder of Kindergarten believed the children would flourish in deveoplment and learning by play in self-activities. He described education like a plant. In his garden he would plant the seed. -
Behavior and beliefs are a part of learning.
Robert Owen believed the enviroment (experiences, relationships) play a role in how we behave and the beliefs we have. This is still true today as educators should respect the different cultures of the children in their classroom. -
Constructivism
Jean Piaget's theory on Constructivism implies that children want to learn. It also explains how people think, understand and learn. Piaget also formed theories regarding enviroments and that children should learn an active enviroment. -
A Child's Basic Needs or Self-Actulaization Theory
Abraham Maslow formed the theory of Self-Actualization. This theory is that a child has basic needs; nutrition, security, love, achievement and aesthetic needs. Maslow believed that all the needs had to be met in order for a child to develop and learn things. -
Sociocultral Theory & Zone of Proximal Development
Lev Vygotsky believed that children's mental, language and social development was incluses by their interactions with others. Vygotsky is also accredited for the Zone of Proximal Development which discusses what a child can do indepentley and what the child might need help to achieve. -
Multiple Intelligence Theory
Howard Gardner's theory was the children be advanced in different areas. He identified these areas of intelligence as; visual, verbal, mathematical, bodily, musical, intrapersonal and interpersonal. -
The child at the center of things.
John Dewey believed that the child's interests should be at the center of everything. Dewey also believed that life activties should be incorporated in a child's enviroment as a lay to learn about the things are them. -
The importance of STEM.
Due to the Soviet Union launching Sputnik and the importance of the race for outer space the governement started spending more on education. They were interested in imporving the subjects of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). -
Equal Opportunity in Education Act
Due to the Civil Rights Movement, we saw a change in who could be including in education. Amendements were made so that everyone had the right to education no matter what ethnicity. -
Economic Opportunity Act
Lyndon B Johnson is responsible for EOA. It was the start of providing many of the programs we have today such as Head Start for children who grow up in a lower class and adided their families. -
The Education of All Handicapped Children Act.
EAHC makes it so that no funds will be recieved if a program doen not develop and put into a place policies for children with disabilities to recieve a free education. -
No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act was reestablished and demands for accountability through testing. This is not favored by all as some believe that a standardized testing system isn't an appropriate way of assessment.
