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Nov 10, 1483
Martin Luther
Martin Luther (1483-1546) emphasized the necessity of establishing schools to teach children to rear. Luther replace the autority of the catholic church with the authority of the bible. MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Translate the Bible from latin to Vernacular language, allowing people to be educated in their own language.
-Advocated establishing schools to teach children how to read. INFLUENCES ON MOTHERN THEORIST
-Universal Education
-Public support of education
-Teaching of reading to all children. -
John Amos Comenius
(March 28,1592 - February 18,1546) He spend his life teaching schools and writing text books. One of his famous books are: Great Didactic and Orbis Pictus (The world in pictures) considerated the first picture book for children. -
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John Amos Comenius
MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Wrote Orbis Pictus, the firs picture book for children
-Though early experiences formed what a child would be like
-Said education should be occur through the senses INFLUENCES ON MODERN THEORIST
-Early learning determine school and life succes
-Sensory experiences support and promote learning
-Believed teaching/learning should progress from easy to difficult. -
John Locke
John Locke (August 29,1632 - October 28, 1704) Is best known for his theory of the mind as a blank tablet, or Tabula Rosa. But this Locke meant that environment and expirience literally form the mind. According to Locke developement comes from the stimulation children receive from parents and caregivers, and through experiences they have in their environment. -
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John Locke
MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Said children are born as blank tablets or Tabula Rosa
-Believe childrens experiences determine who they are. Experiences are the basis of all learning. INFLLUENCES ON MODERN THEORIST
-Learning should be early
-Children learn what they are taugh, teachers literally maake children.
-It is possible to rear children to think and act as society wants them to. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau (Jun 28, 1712 - July 02, 1778) MAYOR CONTRIBUTIONS
-Advocated natural approaches to child reading
-Felt that childrens natures unfold as a result of maturation according to an innate timetable. INFLUENCES ON MODERN THEORIST
-Natural aproaches to education work best (e.g, family grouping, authentic testing, and envirinmental literacy). -
Johann Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, (January 12, 1746 - February 17, 1827) was a swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. -
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Advocated that education should follow the course of nature
-Believe all education is based on sensory impressions
-promoted the idea that the mother could best teach children. INFLUENCES ON MODERN THEORIST
-Family-centered aproaches to early childhood education
-Home schooling
-Laid the basis for discovery learning -
Robert Owen
Robert Owen (May 14, 1771 - November 17, 1858) Was a welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movemento in 1824 -
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Robert Owen
MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Held the environment determines childrens beliefs, behavors, and achievements
-Believe society can shape childrens characters
-Taught that education can help build new society INFLUENCES ON MODERN THEORIST
-Importance of infant programs
-Education can counteract childrens poor environment
-Early childhood education can reform society -
John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - Jun 1, 1952) Was an American philosopher, psichologist, leading activist in the Georgist movement, and educational reformer whose ideas have been infuential in education and social reform. -
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John Dewey
MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Progressive education movement
-Children interest form the basis of the curriculum
-Educate children for today, not for tomorrow INFLUENCES ON MODERN THERIST
-Child-centered education
-Curriculum based on childrens interest
-Discovery learning -
Jean Piaget
Jan Piaget (August 9,1896 - September 16, 1980) was a swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological estudies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "Genetic Epistemology" -
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Jean Piaget
MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Theory of cognitive developement based on ages and stages
-Children are "little scientists" and literally develop their own intelligence. INFLUENCES ON MODERN THEORIST
-Constructive approaches to early childhood education
-Matching education to childrens stages of cognitive development
-Active involvement of children in learning activities -
Erik Erikson
Erik Homburger Erikson (Jun 15, 1902 - May 12, 1994) Was a German-born American Developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development of hman beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity srisis. -
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Erik Homburgerr Erikson
MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Life is a series of eigh stages with each stage representing a criticalperiod in social development
-How parents and teachers interact with and care for children helps determine their emotional and cognitive development INFLUENCES ON MODERN THEORIST
-Play support childrens social and cognitive development
-All children need predictable, consistent love, care, and education -
Abraham Harold Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 -Jun 8, 1970) He was an American psychologist who was best Known for creating Maslows Hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. -
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Abraham Harold Maslow
MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Theory of self-actualization based on needs mtivation
-Human developments is a process of meetings basic needs throughout life
-Humanistic psychology INFLUENCES ON MODER THEORIST
-Importance of meeting basic needs before cognitive learning can occur
-Teachers develop programs to meet childrens basic needs
-Emphasis on providing safety, security, love, and affection for all children. -
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
MAYOR CONTRIBUTION
-Ecological sistems theory views the child as developing within a system of relationship
-Each system influences and is influenced by the other. INFLUENCES ON MODERN THEORIST
-Teachers are more aware of how different environment shape children lives in different ways
-Teachers and parents recognize that childrens development depends on childrens natures and their environments. -
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Urie Bronfenbrenner (April 29, 1917- September 25,2005) Was an American developmentall psychologist-but born in the Soviet Union, Who is most known for his ecological sistem theory of child development. To understand the way children develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it is necessary to observe their behaivor in natural settings.
While they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time.
