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Jan Komensky or Johann Comenius
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Jan Komensky or Johann Comenius
Johann Comenius was a pioneer for education as he changed the classroom to as we know it today. He believed that teachers should treat students with respect and dignity while creating an engaging and pleasant classroom environment. Comenius was also a big one for hands-on learning and allowing everyone to get an education. -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Pestalozzi saw that many children were working in factories and wanted to develop schools that would nurture children's holistic environment. Along with Rousseau, he believed people were naturally good but became corrupt by society's traditional schools that taught memorization and recitation. He believed that if schools created a safe environment and were properly organized, then they could be places of effective learning. -
Johann Friedrich Herbart
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Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841)
Johann Herbart created an educational method that systemized instruction. His way of systemizing instruction included a sequence of 5 steps that you still see today. -
Friedrich Froebel
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Friedrich Froebel
Friedrich Froebel created kindergarten. He created kindergarten so kids could be in an education environment where they could actualize their spirituality through activity. He thought that kids should not only have a place to learn but a place to grow spiritually. -
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer highly disliked traditional schools as he believed in modernizing education as society changed and focusing on science, technology, and engineering. Overall he raised entry standards for teacher programs so only the best people were selected to be teachers. -
John Dewey
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John Dewey
John Dewey believed group activities enhanced social intelligence and rejected Darwin's emphasis on individual competition.
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Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a pioneer in the peace movement, social work, women's rights, and educational philosophy: socialized education. She believed that education needed to take on broader social purposes and that teachers need to understand the newest demographic, economic, and technological trends so they could teach students how to deal with the trends. -
Maria Montessori
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Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori developed an international method of childhood education. She believed that children possess a need to work at what interests them without being bothered by teachers or external rewards/punishments. She found that children can concentrate on their own and tend to do skills until they master them. -
Jean Piaget
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Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget discovered many insights to children's moral, cognitive, and language development. His biggest influence was his construction of the 4 periods of cognitive growth: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete-operational, and formal operational. -
Paulo Freire
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Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire looked at education as a way to empower people to resist and overcome societal powers. He believed that teachers and students should be aware of and teach the political, social, and economic statuses that affect their lives.
