Important Events in Early Childhood Education

By jsamuel4471

  • Sabbath Schools and Clandestine Schools

    Established to educate African Americans in the U.S.

  • Friedrich Willhelm Froebel

    Invented Kindergarten, believed teachers played an important role in a child’s development, and believed children learned through playing

  • Elizabeth Peabody

    Opened the first English-speaking kindergarten in Boston

  • Sigmund Freud

    Explained the importance of the first five years and psychoanalysis

  • John Dewey

    Established a laboratory school in Chicago, and becomes father of Progressive Movement in American education

  • International Kindergarten Union

    Becomes the Association for Childhood Education, moving into elementary education

  • Lawrence Kohlberg

    Published child development works on gender, sex role, and moral developments

  • Education for all Handicapped Children

    Bill passed providing education for special needs children in “least restrictive environment”

  • NAEYC

    Established a National Academy and a voluntary accreditation system for centers to improve children’s lives

  • Leave No Child Behind

    In the U.S. this legislation was passed