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(1483-1546) Advocated establishing schools to teach children how to read.
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Wrote Orbis Pictus, the first picture book for children.
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Said children are born as blank tablets, or tabula rasa.
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Advocated natural approaches to child rearing.
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Advocated the education should follow the course of nature.
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Held that environment determines the children's beliefs, behaviors, and achievements.
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Believed children develop through "unfolding."
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Progressive education movement. Educate children today-not tomorrow.
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The montessori method for educating young children.
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Theory of cognitive development base on ages and stages.
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Human development is a process of meeting basic needs throughout life.
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Communication between teachers and children can act as a means of scaffolding to higher levels of learning.
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Theory of multiple intelligences.
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Life is a series of eight stages with each stage representing a critical period in social development.
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Ecological systems theory views the child as developing within a system of relationships.