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428 BCE
Plato & Socrates
Plato & Socrates were the first major influences in the educational field. They were advocates for higher education and further explored newer ideas in learning theories. -
Johann Amos Comenius
Children have a desire to learn
Children should never be punished for failure, they should be helped and promoted to proceed
Educational rights for all people
Promotes education to get people prepared for careers
Begin at easier material, and work their way up to the more difficult information -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Father of modern education
Hands on learning
Comfortable and welcome learning environment -
Charles Sanders Peirce
Practical applications with education -
John Dewey
Vocational education
Curriculum should be relevant to student’s lives
Learn by doing -
Smith & Hughes
Education was not relevant
Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 -
Kolb
Based off experiences.
Cycles of learning based off experiences.
DO NOT SKIP STEPS! -
Howard Gardener
Multiple intelligence
Kinesthetics
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Linguistic
Logical
Musical
Natural