Children

Milestones in The Early Childhood Profession

By BB22
  • Feb 15, 1483

    Martin Luther

    (1483-1546) Advocated establishing schools to teach children how to read.

  • John Comenius (1592-1670)

    Wrote Orbis Pictus, the first picture book for children.

  • John Locke (1632-1704)

    Said children are born as blank tablets, or tabula rasa.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

    Advocated natural approaches to child rearing.

  • Johann Pestalozzi (1746-1827)

    Advocated the education should follow the course of nature.

  • Robert Owen (1771-1858)

    Held that environment determines the children's beliefs, behaviors, and achievements.

  • Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)

    Believed children develop through "unfolding."

  • John Dewey (1859-1952)

    Progressive education movement. Educate children today-not tomorrow.

  • Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

    The montessori method for educating young children.

  • Jean Piaget (1896-1980)

    Theory of cognitive development base on ages and stages.

  • Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

    Human development is a process of meeting basic needs throughout life.

  • Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)

    Communication between teachers and children can act as a means of scaffolding to higher levels of learning.

  • Howard Gardner (b.-1943)

    Theory of multiple intelligences.

  • Erik Erikson (1902-1994)

    Life is a series of eight stages with each stage representing a critical period in social development.

  • Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005)

    Ecological systems theory views the child as developing within a system of relationships.