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john locke
he published his essay about children born with tabula rasa and their experiences. he is considered to be the founder of modern education philosophy. His belief is that children have a clean slate at life and we need to help our children learn about the world. -
johann Amos Comenius
A Czech educator wrote the first picture book for children. it was a guide for teachers that include training for them. He believed that learning should have more of a natural order. -
Jean- jacques rousseau
she wrote that children are not inherently evil, he wrote a book reasoning that education should reflect the good and allow interests within your child. -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
As a Swiss educator, his contributions are the strongest around the curriculum and group teaching, he thought that group teaching would be more beneficial to children than individual learning and teaching. He also initiated sensory education and worked with the freedom and limits of the children. -
Robert Owen
he was a self made businessman whose philosophy extended to the creation of the community. his concerns for the social reform to the families of those working in the cotton mills. he made labor for the working and schooling for peoples children's. -
social reform
the reshaping and reforming of the laws, norms in cultural ways over time. It is trying to show that schooling for children will lead to social change and development. -
Friedrich Wilhelm froebel
one of the major contributors in the Early Ed. industry. he is known has the father of kindergarten. his system was centered around self-activity and the development of children's self esteem and confidence. -
kindergarten
the first kindergarten was a German school started by froebel in 1837 and 20 years later a former student of his opened the first kindergarten in the US. At first young child education was not looked at as very important but now it's looked at as a need in intellectual development. -
Rudolf Steiner
created a system of education based on educational goods for all and transform the spirit and soul of learning. he was a Austrian phiopsopher, scientist and artist. the system infuluesnced mainstream education in Euroupe, and in northern American today. -
maria montessori
became the first female physician in Italy. she worked with the poor children and children with disabilities with learning. she opened a preschool, they were given meals, baths and medical attention. -
nursery schools
schools that focus on health and play. they served more for the poor children and families. they are reflected from principles of child-centered places. -
A.S Neill
was known as an educator and author, he founded the summerhill school and was child centered. he showed his efforts to create a different way of learning for kids. -
Sputnik
a soviet satellite launch that took place after WWll. it was the first successful space exploration in the world -
high scope
this was one of the models of the programming from preschool through third grade. it was made to address the effects of poverty on children's development and to focus attention on cognitive things of learning. this was the after the launch in 1957. -
media and tech
the media and tech have changed so much. it pushes children out of a relaxed childhood. the media was not as much used then as much as it is now but was first used in 1963 -
head start
the project head start was conceived as education's role of fighting against poverty. it helped the disadvantaged preschool children. this also helped with a lot of the needs that some of the kids needed. -
DAP
goes along with the standards of learning and enhanced the growth of all learning. this is considered the most important developmental tasks for young learning children. -
no child left behind
this was to make sure that all children are caught up to date in learning, and was passed Congress in 2001 to make sure every child can learn, and that people are held accountable for every childs education. -
standards
the US became very focused on education standards and held a structure to learning. there were different ones for math and other subjects for grade k-12