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John Locke- notion of importace of environmental influences
Encourages and promotes early childhood education. He stressed the impotance of rewards punishments and imitation. He believed children were innately curious known for emphasis on early experience. "as the twig is bent, so grows the tree." -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi- sensory Impressions
Encourage activities such as counting measuring feeling and touching. Motto, "Learning by head,hand and heart." Child centered and based on idividual differences. Pestalozzi and Niederer influenced the theory of physical education. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Frobel- Teacher observation
teachers role to observe the childs natural unfolding and provide activities the enable children to learn when ready to learn. promotes self activity. "garden of children." -
John Dewey- Progressivism
Child centered curriculum, child centered school.Process of livingand not preparing for the future living. Children learn about life and the skills necessary for living. the childs early school experiances reflect home life.(cooking, sewing, contruction.) -
Maria Montessori
Educational solutions for problems such as Deafness, paralysis, and mental retardation. Believe cildren absorbed knowledge. and tought themselves. -
Lev Vygotsky- social Interation
Mental, language and social Development . Believed in social interaction -
Economic Opportunity Act
Social program to promote health education and general welfare of people with low socioeconomic status and was designed to put them to work. -
ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act)
Provieds monies to help educate children from low income Families. (Title 1) Helped shorten achievement gaps. the government re authoriezes the act every 5 years for things such as the no child left behind act.
