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John Amos Comenius
Author, One of the earliest authors to produce a text outlining a modern system of education for all children. Promoted that mothers, not school were the best for children under 6. -
John Locke
Doctor & Philosopher, Strongly emphasized the importance of firsthand experiences as a means of learning. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher, authored influential books that spawned educational reforms in Europe and America. -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Swiss Educator, focused on the welfare of poor children -
Robert Owen
British Educator, pioneer and champion of education children outside the home -
Friedrich Froebel
Father of the kindergarten. Advocated a play-based learning enviornment -
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
American Educator, Became the champion of the kindergarten. Opened the first English speaking kindergarten in Boston -
Susan Blow
She believed qualified and quality teachers were essential for the continuation of the Froebalian kindergarten movement. -
G. Stanley Hall
the first american to receive a doctorate in psychology -
Rachel McMillan
Background in social welfare. American nursery schools. Created open-air nursery school where hygiene, outdoor play, and hands on learning where key factors. -
John Dewey
American Pragmatist,In 1894 he became the chairman of the department of philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy at the University of Chicago. -
Arnold Gesell
a student of Hall's. emphasized the importance of careful, documented observations and made the university lab school a papular feature of the child study movement. -
Patty Smith Hill
Kindergarten teacher, designed new child-center, interest-based methods that integrated ideas from Froebel -
Margaret McMillian
envisioned nursery schools as fueling children's imagination and curiosity. Brain development research. -
Caroline Pratt
Opened the Play School, in New York City in 1913. Main purpose was to create an education system that would teach children how to think. -
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Became an integral founding member of the Bureau of Educational Experiments. Education in Science and Art. -
Erik Erikson
Life-span theory of socioemotional development remains a foundation of current beliefs.
Birth-1 year Trust vs Mistrust
2-3 years Autonomy vs shame and doubt
4-5 years Initiative vs guilt -
Susan Isaacs
Psychologist, detailed qualitative reports. objective reports. -
Maria Montessori
From Italy. Based her method systematic observations of children's spontaneous activities. -
Jean Piaget
spent his long life studying children cognitive development
Birth- 2 years Sensorimotor
2-7 years Pre operational
7-11 years Concrete Operations
11-older Formal Operations
