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600 BCE
types of education
Plato and Aristotle discuss educational psychology from topics such as the types of education for each type of person, the training of the body and the cultivation of psychomotor skills, the formation of good character, learning without a teacher, etc. -
500 BCE
Democritus writes about the advantages of schooling and the influence of the home on learning.
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Period: 35 to 100
Preservation of democratic ideals
He was in favor of the public rather than private education to preserve democratic ideals, physical strength as a method of discipline, good teaching, and an attractive curriculum take care of most behavior problems. -
Visual aids
Comenius inaugurates the use of visual aids in instruction. He recommended that instruction start with the general and then move on to the particular. Comprehension is the goal of instruction. Parents play an important role in their children's schooling. -
Hall receives the first doctorate in psychology in America.
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Hall gives public lectures on psychoeducational topics.
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Hall initiates the development of psychology in general and the child study movement in particular.
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Dewey earns his Ph.D. from Hopkins. James Sully writes Outlines of Psychology.
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Hall founds the Journal of Educational Psychology. He founded the pedagogical seminar for the scientific study of education.
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Sully
He said that his objective was "to establish the proposition that science is capable of providing the truths that are needed for an intelligence reflective realization of educational work." -
Principles of psychology
James' principles of psychology published. His views were cognitive and theological conceptions. Habits are acquired in school by design. -
James lectures on the new psychology to new professors in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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James's lectures mark a vigorous presence for educational psychology in America.
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11 of the first 14 doctorates in American psychology went to Hall students.
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It is published in Dewey's empirical article on the relative frequency of word use by Small children.
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Dewey y Thorndike
Dewey introduces the new education in the first Herbartian yearbook. Thorndike is devoted to experimental psychology, first with children and then with animals as subjects. Thorndikes writes the criteria for judging a novel. -
Dewey's first major article in psychology comes out, arguing that what held the stimuli and their responses together were the interpretations given to both.
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William Harris defends the tradition of methods and states the four cardinal rules for efficient instruction. Rice presents her empirical classroom research on the futility of the spelling routine.
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Munsterberg is the founder of applied psychology, particularly forensic psychology. Thorndike writes his classic thesis, Animal Intelligence. Thorndike tries to open an educational center.
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Dewey discusses issues in practical social and psychology in his presidential address to the APA. Thorndike is brought to Teachers College as an instructor in psychology.
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William James is considered the central figure in the establishment of psychology in America.
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Thorndike wrote that psychological science is teaching how botany is for agriculture, mechanics is for architecture, and physiology and pathology are for the physician.
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American psychology
American psychology splits from its European roots to become a uniquely American discipline. Dewey said that knowledge was a tool, not an end in itself. -
Superintendents meeting
In the superintendents' meeting it is proposed that the effectiveness of the school, the methods and the teachers should be measured in terms of the results obtained. Thorndike is named president of the APA. -
Hall questionnaires
The unscientific forces had their last chance to challenge the new science and they lost. Hall with his students and co-workers developed 194 questionnaires to determine what youth and adolescents knew. -
Thorndike applied his connectionist psychology to the learning of school subjects.
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Charles Judd
Charles Judd makes some remarks about the superintendents meeting like William James, G. Stanley Hall, and John Dewey. -
Piaget
Piaget inquired about the conceptions that children had of nature, animals, plants and the solar system. -
Dael Wolfle gives the formula for writing textbooks in child educational psychology
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Woodruff said that educational psychology did not have a domain that was his to a greater extent.
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Monroe
Monroe considered obedience to authority necessary to develop a child's sense of personal responsibility. -
Experimental psychology
The most influential theorists abandon psychological education to retreat to the field of experimental psychology. -
Hall publishes History of Experimental Psychology.
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A specialty area is developed in research on teaching.
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Thorndike
Thorndike wrote books on the psychology of school subjects such as arithmetic and reading. -
Carroll
Carroll published his model of school learning and wrote on the discipline of educational psychology. -
Joncich
Joncich said that the novel should not be judged on its ability to excite the emotions. -
Cronbach received an award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution.
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Committees are created to deal with problems in educational psychology.
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Instructional psychology
Instructional psychology is given. Interest in schooling on the part of educational psychologists resurfaces. -
Robert Coles
Robert Coles questioned what the children knew about numbers, religion, death, fear, sex, and their own bodies. -
Educational psychology
Educational psychology emerges. Granville Stanley Hall organizes the American Psychological Association (APA). -
Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology becomes a source of new ideas for educational psychologists who choose to work in school settings on authentic educational problems. -
Wittrock and Berliner point out that we must bring psychology to education.