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Margaret McMillan (1860-1931) suggested that children should be given free school meals, fruit and milk, and plenty of exercise to keep them physically and emotionally healthy. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) believed play allows children to talk, socially interact, use their imagination and intellectual skills.
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Marie Montessori (1870-1952) believed that children learn through movement and their senses and after doing an activity using their senses.
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The National Association for the Education of Young Children is founded.
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Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky proposed a "socio-cultural learning theory" that emphasized the impact of social and cultural experiences on individual thinking and the development of mental processes.
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Childhood and Society is a book by Erik H. Erikson about the social significance of childhood.[1]
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Provided high-quality preschool education to three- and four-year-old African-American children living in poverty and assessed to be at high risk of school failure.
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Jean Piaget's constructivist theory gained influence in the 1970s and '80s. Although Piaget himself was primarily interested in a descriptive psychology of cognitive development, he also laid the groundwork for a constructivist theory of learning. Piaget believed that learning comes from within: children construct their own knowledge of the world through experience and subsequent reflection.
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British Children's Act of 1989 links to play-work as the act works with play workers and sets the standards for the setting such as security, quality and staff ratios.
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In the 1998 case of Abbott v. Burke, the New Jersey Supreme Court required New Jersey’s poorest school districts to implement high-quality ECE programs and full day kindergarten for all three and four-year-olds.
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Provides free early childhood education for low-income families