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Johann Amos Comenius
He was one of the first to recognize the importance of educating very young children. His philosophy involves allowing all children to receive an education. Children should get to know themselves and the world through learning. He also emphasized moral and religious education. -
John Locke
John Locke published an original essay that explained that children are born with a tabula rasa or clean slate. Saying that children when they are born need to be taught how to do everything to learn anything and they have nothing when they're born. To know anything they have to be taught like all experiences and education to know anything. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Opposed to rote memorization and lectures, Rousseau believed that education should be experiential, child-centered, and based on the developmental stages of cognitive and physical growth. Children, who Rousseau believed were innately good and virtuous, were to learn autonomously with little guidance from parents. -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Pestalozzi believed that education should develop the powers of ‘Head’, ‘Heart’ and ‘Hands’. He believed that this would help create individuals who are capable of knowing what is right and what is wrong and of acting according to this knowledge. Thus the well-being of every individual could be improved and each individual could become a responsible citizen. -
Kindergarten
Froebel opens the first kindergarten in Blankenburg, Germany. It was first known as "Childs Garden" and "gifts from god". Churches led it and was very poor. Then later kindergarten was introduced into America. We look at kindergarten as the first step toward kids becoming more independent. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel
He was a German educator who created the kindergarten. His core concept is “play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in the child’s soul.” According to Froebel, through play children develop their understanding of the world through personal and direct experience. -
Robert Owen
Robert Owen was concerned about impoverished children and became an advocate of educating children outside the home. He began the infant school movement. Through these schools he envisioned kind teachers encouraging large groups of children engage in activities with natural and concrete objects. -
Maria Montessori
Montessori education is based on the belief that all children are unique individuals, that they all have immense potential, that they want to learn and be busy. Therefore the teacher needs to guide each child through the learning process by using materials that fit their specific needs and pace. -
Nursery Schools
The first Nursery School opens in England. In 1929 Susan Issacs publishes The Nursery Years, which contradicts more of a psychological view and behavior of the the childs view point seeing if its working in the nursery schools. -
Rudolf Steiner
His theory of child development proposes that children are active agents of their learning, and are driven by their innate curiosity and drive to grow and evolve. -
a. s neill
Summerhill is noted for its philosophy that children learn best with freedom from coercion, a philosophy that was promoted by the New Ideals in Education Conferences (1914–37) that helped to define the good modern primary school as child-centred. -
Sputnik
The launch of Sputnik powerfully focused the nation on the work to be done in science education, ultimately encouraging many students to pursue science and engineering and, most broadly, to help the US defeat the Soviets in the Space Race -
High Scope
The project presented the most evidence of Early intervention programs that improved the effectiveness of low income children. This was the first study that measured the effects of preschool education. -
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Head Start
Head Start started in 1965 as a summer program designed to break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool to children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs. -
DAP
Teaching practices that are based on responsiveness and observation of the child. This help develop abilities who differ from one another. This also helps the social and cultural aspects of the child. -
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Standards
Learning Standards started becoming more of a focus in the 2000s. It became to take more accountable for taking the standards to a more serious alignment and now have more control. -
No Child Left Behind
Requires states to establish student standards as well as an assessment system to ensure that all students are meeting the educational standards -
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Social Reform
The ethic of social reform is a major theme of how kids were able to start learning of how to do this stuff and learning. -
Media and Technology
Technology and media are heavily established in children's daily lives. 99% of American households have at least one television then two-thirds contain 2 or more sets according to Nielson Media Research.