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Jan 1, 1546
Martin Luther, Teaching Children and translating the Latin Bible
He was the first one that contributed to childhood education and he establsihed a school to teach children how to read. -
Period: Jan 1, 1546 to
Early Childhood Education History Timeline
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John Locke Children's experience and Tubula Rasa.
Children's expereince when they are young determines who they are and he said learning should start from early age. -
Johann Pestalozzi Family Centered Approaches to ECE.
He believed all eduaction is based on the senes of the humans and that children are able to learn the most when they represent their experinece in a form of writing, drawing and talking. -
Friedrich Froebel, Garden of Children
He founded the first kinderngarten and he said that the teacher's role is similar to a gardener's and that's where the Garden of Children comes from. He beleived that children learn the best when they are able to play. -
Maria Montessori, Respect the Children is....
She believed learning is mostly achieved through sensory based material. Many public and private schools follow her approach and methods of teaching. Preparing the teaching environment is essential for teaching. The foundation of education is based on respecting the children. -
Jean Piaget, Cognitive Theroies of development.
He developed the congnitive theory of developmet which explains human behavior and understands the thought process. -
Erik Erikson, Cognitive developmet occurs in conjuncton with..
Cognitive development occurs in conjunction with social development and while children are playing their social and cognitive development. He said that how parents and teachers interact with children determines their emotional and cognitive development. -
Urie Bronfenbrenner, Ecological systems theory veiw on child development.
He said that five interrelating systems are responsible for development and they are-microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. -
Howard Gardner, Theory of multiple intelligence.
This theory states that intelligence is consists of nine ablities. Teachers should develop programs that match children's intelligence.
