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347 BCE
Plato & Socrates
Socratic method, posing a question and letting students develop their own ideas.
The best answer to a student's question is "what do you think?"
Idealism.
Today in Agriculture Education, students are challenged to develop their own ideas about the different areas of agriculture. -
Johann Amos Comenius
Promoted education for career preparation.
Believed in tendency to WANT to learn.
Students shouldn't be punished for failing but rather encouraged and helped.
Promoted education rights for all. -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
"Father of Modern Education"
Hands on learning.
Contribute the head, heart, and hands to everyday learning.
Children should feel welcome and comfortable. -
Charles Sanders Pierce
Pragmatism
Being able to see the success of a practical application reveals truth behind theories & beliefs.
Stages of Clarity:
1. Unconscious awareness
2. Being aware & being able to explain
3. Ability to apply knowledge to other situations -
Smith & Hughes
Smith-Hughes Act of 1917: bringing vocational education to America's classrooms.
Believed education needed to be more relevant to students lives.
Actually discredited agriculture education by originally stating its intention and purpose as for being only for students who were not college bound.
Did NOT create agriculture education, it was already around. -
Dr. David A. Kolb
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING -
John Dewey
Influenced by Pierce.
Believed in the importance of Vocational education.
"Learn by doing"
Strongly believed curriculum should be relevant to students' lives.
More than one way to solve a problem. -
Howard Gardner
Multiple Intelligence Theory.
Students learn best when they are taught with the intelligence they are strongest with.
Teachers now provide new learning styles.