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Period: Feb 17, 1483 to Feb 17, 1546
Martin Luther
Emphasized why it is important to teach children to read by having them learn the Bible in their own Language. -
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John Amos Comenius
John Comenius wrote textbooks and was a teacher. He is the author of the books "The Great Didactic" and "Orbis Pictus" which is considered to be the first picture book for children. Comenius believed sensory education forms the foundation for all learning and that everything should be taught through senses which was endorsed by Montessori and used in some childhood practices today. -
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Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel
Froebel is known as the "Father of Kindergarten" and believes that playing is the process in which children learn. Playing supports growth and development is his belief as well. -
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Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was the first woman in Italy to earn a medical degree. She developed the system of Montessori Method which is based on scientific observations and is used in over 4 thousand early childhood programs. -
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Lev Vygotsky
Vygotsky is from Piaget. HIs theory describes children's mental, language, and social development and how it is enhanced by others through social interaction. He also believed that children seek adults for social interaction beginning at birth. -
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Erik Erikson
Erikson developed the theory psychosocial development based on his belief that cognitive and social development go together and cannot be seperated. He believes childrens personalities and social skills grow and develope with the context of society and its demands such as families, schools, and child care programs. Adults help or hinder children in their personality or cognitive development. -
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
Bronfenbrenner developed the ecological theory which includes 5 interrelating environmental systems: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem -
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Howard Gardner
Gardner helped educators rethink the concept of intelligence. He believes multiple intelligences cause people to be smart in several different ways. He identifies these nine intelligences: visual/spatial, verbal/linguistic, mathmatical/logical, bodily/kinesthetic, musical/rythmic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic, existential.