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Social Reform
Brought ease and freedom for the common person. Children were seen as pure and good. This also brought inventions and people that aided the education fields. The printing press, humanist educators, and the German school system are a few of the things social reform brought to the table. -
Johann Amos Comenius
Czech educator who wrote the first picture book for children. It was titled Orbs Pictus and published in 1658; It was a guide for teachers that included training of the sense and the study of nature. -
John Locke
He was an English philosopher. He was known as the founder of modern education. He published his essay, which said that children are born with a clean slate. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss writer and philosopher proposed that children were not inherently evil, but naturally good. He is best known for his book Emile (1761), in which eh raised a hypothetical child to adulthood. -
Robert Owen
He was an ndustrialist and follower of Pestalozzi. He had concerns for social reform for the families of those working in the cotton mills of Wales.He stopped the employment of children younger than 10, sent children to nursery and infant schools he built, and required the mills to allow secondary-age children to reduce their labor time to go to school. -
Johann Henrich Pestalozzi
How Gertrude Teachers Her Children emphasizes home education. His contributions also include the integration of the curriculum and group teaching. He initiated sensory education and blended freedom and limits into working with children. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel
Education of Man, written by Froebel, describes the first system of kindergarten. In 1837, he opens the first Kindergarten in Germany. -
Kindergarten
In Geremany, Froebel opens his first kindergarten. He wanted his kindergarten to be a child's personal garden. -
Rudolf Steiner
He was an Austrian philosopher, scientist, and artist.He gave lectures that would later result in the schools known as Waldorf Education. The system helped with mainstream education. His philosophy focused on children's spiritual development, imagination, and creative gifts. -
Maria Montessori
First female physician in Italy.She opened a preschool. She designed materials, classrooms, and a teaching procedure that proved her point to the astonishment of people all over Europe and the U.S. -
Nursery Schools
First Cooperative Nursery School opens at the University of Chicago. Early childhood educators took Dewey's philosophy and ran with it. They used child-centered approach, active learning, and social cooperation. -
A. S Neill
Founded Summerhill School in England, which becomes a model for the "free school" movement. There would be a book titled Summerhill is publsihed in 1960. -
High Scope
This was created to adress the effects of poverty on children's development and to focus attention on cognitve aspects of learning. There were two studies: "Planned Variation" which focused on Head start programs and "Project Follow-Through" which addressed the effects of programming from preschool through third grade. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was a Soviet satellite, which would end up being the first successful space exploration in the world. This would cause an abruption in education communities. -
DAP
Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) are defined and expanded and expanded in the next chapter. This means that it can relect the best, most current thinking of the field, and it requires periodic evaluaton and revision. -
Media and Technology
The introduction of technology was quick. It made a big impact on society. Things learned about brain development and neuroscience from previous centuries has to be blended with technology. -
Standards
Based on the idea that quality education can be definied so as to close the achievement gap. Drive towards standards-based education. -
No Child Left Behind
It reauthorizes federal programs to improve public school performance. It requires all public schools that receive federal funds to administer a statewide standarized test. It also called for highly qualified teachers with minimum qualifications for all students. -
Head Start
Head Start completes its initial plan to raise teacher education requirements by requiring at least one teacher in each classroom to hold a bachelor's degree.