Teaching Philosophers and Key Ideas

By svick
  • 350 BCE

    Plato and Socrates

    Socratic Method: Teacher asks a series of questions and allows students to form their own conclusion.
  • Johann Amos Comeniuis

    Promoted education for career preparation.
  • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

    Known as "Father of Modern Education".
    Promoted hands on learning.
  • Charles Sanders Peirce

    Focused on Pragmatism
    Practical applications in real life
  • John Dewey

    "Learn by doing" mind set
    Believed that curriculum should be relevant to the students.
  • David Kolb

    Emphasized an experimental learning style
  • Howard Gardner

    Theory of multiple learning styes: bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, linguistic, logical/mathematical, musical/spatial, and naturalistic
  • Smith & Hughes

    Believed that curriculum should be relevant to students lives. Smith Hughes Act 1917, provided good as well as bad impacts.

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