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Encourages and promotes early childhood education. He stressed the impotance of rewards punishments and imitation. He believed children were innately curious known for emphasis on early experience. "as the twig is bent, so grows the tree."
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Encourage activities such as counting measuring feeling and touching. Motto, "Learning by head,hand and heart." Child centered and based on idividual differences. Pestalozzi and Niederer influenced the theory of physical education.
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teachers role to observe the childs natural unfolding and provide activities the enable children to learn when ready to learn. promotes self activity. "garden of children."
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Child centered curriculum, child centered school.Process of livingand not preparing for the future living. Children learn about life and the skills necessary for living. the childs early school experiances reflect home life.(cooking, sewing, contruction.)
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Educational solutions for problems such as Deafness, paralysis, and mental retardation. Believe cildren absorbed knowledge. and tought themselves.
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Mental, language and social Development . Believed in social interaction
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Social program to promote health education and general welfare of people with low socioeconomic status and was designed to put them to work.
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Provieds monies to help educate children from low income Families. (Title 1) Helped shorten achievement gaps. the government re authoriezes the act every 5 years for things such as the no child left behind act.
