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He was one of the earliest authors to produce a text outlining a modern system of education for all children. He liked the idea of universal education and preferred nature over nurture. Believed children should learn through active means.
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Information on John-Jacques Rousseau
Children were innately perfect and optimal development would unfold naturally without the corrupting influence of some elements of society.
He thought that mothers should not educate that male tutors should educate the child. -
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Information on Pestalozzi
He worked to meet the needs of the welfare of poor children.
He had a holistic approach and worked directly with children.
Was proactive with mother/parents as the first teacher.
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Fueled the British School Movement and liked the idea of schooling outside the home.
1820's he started pushing the need for infant school in America -
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"Father of Kindergarten"
Believed that play based learning was key
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Opened the first Kindergarten in Boston in 1859.
Created individualized instruction -
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Implimented teaching and children's kindergarten programs across the US. Worked to make teachers educated to further the students and keep the movement of Kindergarten going.
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First American to recieve a doctorate in Psychology.
Emphasized alligning educational curriculum with the stages of development.
Refined Froebel's methods.
Started recess for children. -
Open air nursery school
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Opened playschool in NY that taught children how to think
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Designed child-centered interest-based methods that intergrated from ideas from Froebel.
Laid the foundation for NAEYC
Universal classrooms for all types of social classes -
Founding memeber of the Bureau of Educational Experiments
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Student of Hall
Promoted parents as teachers and researchers
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Studied children's cognative development
Stages of cognitive development -
Zone of proximal development
Private speech
Scaffolding -
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Developmental stage theory of socioemotional development
Lifespan development theory creator -
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Continues to build and refine ideas on how children think, process and store information and learn.
Views self-discovery as the most important process for learning -
Ecological Systems Theory
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