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Locke Tabula Rasa
Locke's theory of tabula rasa or blank slate to describe the human mind. This belief really increased and promotes the idea of education. This theory supports the importance of early childhood education and child rearing. -
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kindergarten founder
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel founded the term kindergarten with the belief that children are like gardens and need to learn and unfold like a flower ("Garden of Children").He believed that children learn through play. This is still a strong belief amoung early childhood eduators. The importance of play is always a topic of discussion. -
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John Dewey
John Dewey's theory focused on ones personal experiences with their envirnment. His focus supports the importance of independent learning. -
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Maria Motessori
Maria Montessori was a physican and educator who developed her own philosophy of education based on supportive environments that were child centered. Her theories hugely shaped early childhood classrooms. Montessori schools can be found today around the world. There are even some public charter schools that take are modeled after her philosophy. -
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Piaget
Pieget's theory was on cognative stages of development. The preoperational stage from ages 2-7, the early childhood years, focused on imagination development. He believed there where three types of knowledge: logical-mathmatical, physical, and social. -
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Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky came up with a theory on the Zone of Provimal Development. Vygotsly believed learning proceeded development. This belief lead us to the importance and idea of scoffolding ones insturction to increase learning and therefore promote developmnet. -
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Erik Erickson
Erik Erickson famous for his work on pychosocial development theory based on stages of social development that shape ones personality. His eight stages include: trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. role confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, & integrity vs. despair. -
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Abraham Maslow
Maslow was a psycholosgist most famous for Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. First level pysiological is the most basic level of food, water, shelter. Followed by safety, love & belonging, esteem, and finally self -actualization. At the final level once all other needs have been met one developes sence of self with moral and ethical codes. How well this is developed can be related back to how well the previous levels of needs have been met. -
Sputnik Launch
Soviet Union's launch of the world's first satellite into space caused and increased emphasis on science education in America. In 1958 the National Defence Eduation Act provided federal funding for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). -
Civil Rights Act
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Frames Of Mind by: Howard Gardner
Gardners book came out this year on his theory of multiple intellegences. This has really changed the way we teach today. His intellegences are:visial-spatial, verbal-linguistic, mathmatical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.