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Argued in favor of public rather than private education to preserve democratic ideals--a battle still being fought today.
He condemned physical force as a method of discipline, commenting that good teaching and an attractive curriculum take care of most behavior problems -- advice that is as appropriate today as it was 2,000 years ago. -
Democritus, wrote on the advantages conferred by schooling and the influence of the home on learning (Watson, 1961).
A century later, Plato and Aristotle discussed the following educational psychology topics (Adler, 1952; Watson, 196 1 ) -
He wrote very much as a contemporary educational psychologist
might in the first part of the 16th century. He wrote about
individual differences and the need to adjust instruction for all students, but especially for the "feeble minded," the deaf, and the blind, anticipating the work of educational and school psychologists in special education and the area of aptitudetreatment interaction. -
A humanist writing at the beginning of the modern era, also influenced both educational and psychoeducational thought (1657; Broudy, 1963). He wrote texts that were based on a developmental theory and in them inaugurated the use of visual aids in instruction.
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The mid-19th century philosopher and psychologist, Johann Friedrich Herbart. He not only may be considered the first voice of the modern era of psychoeducational thought, but his disciples, the Herbartians, played a crucial role in preparing the way for the
scientific study of education. They wrote about what we now call schema theory, advocating a cognitive psychology featuring the role of past experience and schemata in learning and retention. -
He can be considered the central figure in the establishment of psychology in America. James was said to have had "the courage to be incomplete" His was a psychology of humility, humor, and tolerance.
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Founder of the child-study movement. Hall eventually received the first doctoral degree in psychology in America. The granting institution was Harvard University, the year was 1878,and Hall's major advisor was William James. y Hall founded at Johns Hopkins, as opposed to the one James had halfheartedly developed, was the first formal laboratory for the study of psychology in the United States.
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The father of research on teaching.
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The contributions of another American giant, he was in the three intertwined fields of study: philosophy, psychology, and pedagogy.. Dewey noted that stimuli and responses occur as part of previous
and future chains, because that is the nature of experience.He advocated allowing students to participate in the educational process because it was their personal needs that were the starting place of that process. -
He was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and helped lay the scientific foundation for educational psychology. Thorndike believed that only empirical work should guide education.