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Period: 1483 to 1546
Martin Luther
He greatly impacted the authority of the Catholic Church and gave the people the ability to take control of their own lives. He emphasised the importance of universal education. He believed the people should all be able to read themselves so other authorities can not take advantage of them the way the church did during this time. -
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John Lock
His theory was that the mind was a blank slate. He stressed the idea that a child’s environment and experience will form their brain and development. It is crucial for a child to be given a stable, loving, positive, growing environment to learn in. -
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Johann Pestalozzi
He believed that children also learn through their environmental setting. He saw that children learn through sensory. He believed children could express thoughts and emotions through things such as drawing and writing-and through these things they learn. He laid the basis for discovery learning. -
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Robert Owen
This man opened an infant school for children ages 18 months to 10 years old. He did this because he believed a child’s environment shaped their character. He wanted to try to make the world a better place by controlling children’s environment in hopes they would grow up to be good and productive adults. -
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Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel
He created the basic concept of kindergarten. He believed children’s abilities and learning naturally unfolds as time progresses. He saw children’s development through play and believed it to be an important thing. -
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Jean Piaget
He believed that children grew through constructivism and cognitive learning. He saw the importance of mental and physical activities for the development of children. He believed a scientist (hypothesis, experiment) approach was the best way for a kid to learn. -
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Abraham Maslow
He saw it was important to meet emotional and physical needs before dealing with the mental needs. He saw these things went hand-in-hand, and needed each other for the health of a child. He believed to learn, children needed their basic needs met to be able to do so. -
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Howard Gardner
He saw that there is multiple kinds of intelligence, not just book smart. He saw that certain children were gifted with intelligence in things such as music or interpersonal relationships while another could be good with linguistics or math. Teachers had to be apart of growing these different types of intelligences, not just one.