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The first picture book for children was created by John Amos Comenius. It influenced early learning and helped determine school and life success.
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John Locke had the concept that environment and experiences forms mind and development come from stimulation by parents and caregivers and all this experience coming from their environment,
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Jacques Rousseau, "state of nature," advocate natural approaches to child rearing. Development of child's natural capacities by automatic discovery, he was against teaching based on a pre-determined curriculum.
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Johann Pestalozzi, according Johann education should follow the curse of nature, he believe in the education base in sensory impressions.
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The first idea about preschool in United States come from the members of infant school society of Boston, They did a petition to incorporate infant school into the Boston Public School.
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Jean Piaget, development the theory of cognitive development base on ages and stages. Piaget theory says that mental and physical activities are important for cognitive development, he projects a approach to learning. The stages on ages are: Sensorimotor. Birth to 18 month-24, preoperational (toddlerhood) 18 to 24 through early childhood -7, concrete operational 7-12 and formal operational (adolescence) through adulthood.
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Erik Erikson, according Erikson theory of psychology development-cognitive development occur together with social development, the life is a result of eight stages and each stage represent a period in social development.
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Urie Bronfenbrenner explain how everything in a child and his environment affects how a child grow and develops, he has different levels of the environment as microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem and macrosystem,