Educational Philosophers

By skeim1
  • 17,272 BCE

    Charles Sanders Pierce

    Pragmatism
    Stages of clarity
  • 11,111 BCE

    Johann Pestalozzi

    "Father of modern education"
    Head, heart, hand
    Hands on learning
  • Johann Amos Comenius

    Believed in children wanting to learn
    Didn't believe in punishing for failure
    Promoted educational rights
    Adapt to students needs
    Easy=> hard material
  • Plato & Socrates

    Socrates
    Socratic method, dialect method, series of questions
    Plato
    Student of Socrates, once an idea is formed it's never completed
  • John Dewey

    Believed in vocational education
    Learn by doing
    Method of problem solving
  • Smith & Hughes

    Created the Smith & Hughes act of 1917
  • David Kolb

    Learning is the process where by knowledge is created through the transformation of experience.
    - learning cycle
    -completing the cycle with going back to defection and observation
    -down fall today is we don't go back to reflection
    - the cycle helps build student's confidence
    -hands-on learning.
  • Howard Gardner

    8 different intelligence
    - bodies- kinesthetic
    -interpersonal
    -intrapersonal
    -linguistics
    - logical-mathematics
    -musical,spatial
    - naturalistic