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Advocated establishing schools to teach children how to read. Public support of education.
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Wrote first picture boo for children. promoted Early learning through senses. Believed teaching/learning should progress from easy to difficult.
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Believed children's experiences determine who they are, experiences are the basis of all learning. Thought learning should begin early, and they learn what they are taught.
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Adovocated natural approaches to child rearing. Thought natural approaches to education work best.
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Advocated that education should follow the course of nature. Believed all education is based on sensory impressions. Promoted the idea that the mother could best teach children.
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Believed that society can shape children's character. Taught that education can help build a new society. ECE can reform society.
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Founded the kindergarten "Garden of Children" believed children can and should learn through play.
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Child-centered education. Created curriculum based on children's interests. Also thought Educated children for today-not tomorrow.
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created the Montessori method fro educating young children. There were large number of public and private Montessori schools that emphasised her approach, methods, and materials.
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Thoery of cognitive development based on ages and stages. Constructive approach to early childhood education.
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Sociocultural thoery, emphasized importance of interpersonal relationships in social and cognitive development. Used of cooperative learning and other forms of social learning.
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Thoery of psychosocial development- cognitive development occurs in conjunction with social development. Thought all children need predictable, consistent, love, care, andeducation.
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Theory of self-actualization based on needs motivation. Developed programs to meet children's badic needs. Growth of the self-esteem.
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Created five systems that have apowerful impact on development, microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. Teachers learned h how different enviornments shape chidren's lives in different ways.
