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John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) Comenius wrote the first childrens picture book. He believed that children should start getting educated at an early age. He believed the purpose of children being taught at an early age is for them to retain more information. Comenius also believed it to be very important for children to be taught using the senses. He thought that the basis of all the learning in childrens life comes from them learning trhough sensory education. -
Robert Owen
Robert Owen (1771-1858) Robert Owen believed that an individual as well as society can use a the environment to make he character of the child. in 1816 Owen opened up a ECE school for infants, from 18 months to 10 years of age, in New Lanark. Owen opened this school to take care of the children of the people that worked in the cotton mills which he owned. Owen was against punishment. He believed it would distract children from learning and their natural course of development. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel(1782-1852) Froebel is known as "the father of kindergarten." He believd that development came from children being involved in self activity and play. He believed that children will learn what and when they are ready to learn with activities provided to them. Froebel believed hands on is the best way to learn.He provided children with what he called "gifts", "ocupations" and songs which were all educational. He believed girls and boys should be together in classrooms. -
John Dewey
John Dewey(1859-1952) Dewey did more than any one to being Education in to the United States. Dewey believed education to be a process in which we are living and not to prepare us for the future. Dewey believed that children should be interacting, solving problems on their own, along with them being involved in activities. Dewey believed and used in his class rooms "workshops". We use these workshops now in our classrooms and call them "small Groups". -
Maria Montwssori
Maria Montessori (1870-1952) Montessori was the first woman in Italy that earned a medical degree, the fisrt woman to be a physician. She believed that children learn by making responsible decisions on their own. She believed children make responsible decisions in a prepared environment by the educator. Children are believed to make such decisions with learning materials that are provided to them. She believed this technique will help them make responsible decisions and be self disciplined. -
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) His life was devoted to his cognitive theory, childrens intelligence comes from their direct experiences with the physical world. He believed children gather the information they need by experiencing and by being involved with the people, places, and things around them. Piaget believed that most of what children learn is based on repetition. He believed children went through stages; Sensorimotor (birth-2yrs) Preoperational (2-7 yrs), and Concrete Operations (7-17 yrs). -
Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) He believed children from birth look for social interaction in adults. He believed that childrens development comes from these interactions made with adults. He believed that the communication and dialogue between a child and his teacher is very important.Believed teachers should plan challenging activities for children and support them.He believed when children talk to themselves they are trying new things and this,known as private speech,helps them solve their problems -
Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson(1902-1994) Erikson believed children go through 4 stages in which they face 4 conflicts. His 4 stages are infancy( birth-18months), toddlerhood( 18-42months), preprimary(42months-6yrs), and primary(6-12yrs). H believed he conflicts they go trough are trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs shame and doubt, initiative vs guilt, and industry vs inferiority. Erikson believed childrens personalities are based on society's demands and believed parents and teachers play an important role in it. -
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005)
Bronfenbrenners ecological theory blieved that childrens development is formed by the relationships in their environment. According to Bronfenbrenner there are 5 enviromental systems which are the microsystem (childrens direct experiences), mesosystem (links between microsyatems), exosystem (settings that dont include them but affect and influence them), macrosystem (cultural influences), and chronosystem (changes and or transitions in life). -
Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner born on July 11, 1943. Gardner believed that there is not one definition for intelligence. Howard Gardner believed that one person can be smart in many different ways such as in language, in math, in music, or in art. He has a very important role in how todays teachers think of intelligence, makes them rethink to many different ways of being intelligent and not just one definition. Gardner has 9 intelligences some which are Visual, Verbal, mathematical, bodily, and naturalistic.
