ECE Chapter 1 Timeline

  • Johann Amos Comenius

    He wrote the first picture book for children that was ta guide for teachers to train the senses and the study of nature. He also believed that children should be able to learn at their own pace. He believed that teachers should observe and work with the natural order of development called the timetable, to ensure successful learning. He also believed that children should learn by doing.
  • John Locke

    John Locke was an English Philosopher, and is considered to be the founder of modern educational philosophy. His theory of education was based on the study of the mind and learning. Be made the theory of tabula rasa, which is the belief that each child is born a "clean slate", and their experiences shape the world they know.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    He pro[used that children weren't inherently evil, but they were natural led good. He said that children learn from firsthand information and that they have different views than adults. He said that a child's mind develops in distinct phases, and so teachers should adjust their teaching accordingly. He also said that the school environment should be less restrained and more flexible in order to meet the needs of the children. His ideas are still followed in early childhood classes today.
  • Johann Henrich Pestalozzi

    His theory on education was that good education meant the senses should be developed. He thought that education should be of the hand, head, and heart of the child. He also said that teachers were to guide intuition, exercise, and the senses. He wanted school to teach children basic skills, and for students to be taught in groups. He had the idea that caring for the child as well as educating the child was important.
  • Kindergarten

    German was the first country to have kindergarten. Kindergarten has gone through many social changes throughout the years. At first it was for poor students and then it went to be led by churches. The kindergarten we know today is the first grade that students enter when they go to school to help them become more independent and prepared for the following grades.
  • Social Reform

    Expects that schooling for young children will lead to social change and improvement. Lots of programs have tried to improve a child's health and physical well-being by first attending to their physical and social welfare aspects of children's lives.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel

    He was a major contributor of early childhood education and is best known as the father of the Kindergarten. He organized educational through and ideas about learning, curriculum, and training teachers. He had the desire to promote children's right to play and have toys. Even know, people practice the Froebelian belief, that children should have pleasant discoveries and adventures, while the adult's role is to plant the ideas and materials for children as they grow at their own pace.
  • Robert Owen

    He was an industrialist and he extended his concerns for the families who worked in the cotton mills of Wales. He established labor practices for the workers of Wales. Be began schooling for the children who were working in the mills, and he created an infant school for children 3-10 years old.
  • Maria Montessori

    She became the first female physician in Italy. She opened a preschool were the children were while their parents worked. She designed material, classrooms, and a teaching procedure to prove that children weren't defective, but that they could thrive in school. She had a valuable contribution of how children learn, as they teach themselves if others dedicate themselves to the self-creating process of the child.
  • Rudolf Steiner

    His theory was that childhood is an important phase of life that must be carefully planned to protect and nature a child. There are more than 1,900 Waldorf kindergartens around the world. He emphasized a child's spiritual development, imagination, and creative gifts, so there are a lot of play in these type of school.s
  • Sputnik

    The launch of the Sputnik revolutionized education U.S. education by initiating massive federal investment in STEM to close the technological gap.
  • Nursery Schools

    They fostered the child's full development, not just custodial health care. Children were enrolled in middle and upper class homes, and working class families. Up until the 1960s, nursery schools only served few poor families.
  • Head Start

    It is a federally funded early childhood education program in the U.S. that is designed to promote school readiness for children up to age 5, especially low-income families, children in foster care, and homeless children. They are offered free heal, education, and nutrition services, while also including parents in their children's development.
  • A.S. Neill

    He wrote a book called Summerhill that describes 40 years of the "free/natural school", which he was the headmaster of. He claimed that a lot of education was defective because it came from the model of original sin. He believed in freedom where children could govern themselves and worked toward equal rights with adults. Even today these ideas are seen in the "Adventure Playgrounds" which are in England, the United States, and the Outdoor Classroom Project worldwide.
  • Media and Technology

    There is an increased concern that children are being pushed to adulthood to fast because of increased technology and social media. Young children are being pushed unnecessarily because of such a fast paced society. Children still need to have a childhood.
  • Standards

    Education standards are concise and consistent research based academic guidelines, defining what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.
  • High Scope

    This was a curriculum that identified keep experienced relate to concept development, and it expanded to include education for all developmental domains, as well as recommendations for the physical environment and the daily schedule.
  • No Child Left Behind

    A federal program made to improve public school performance by requiring all public schools to receive fedral funds that were used for an annual standardized test, with a detailed report card process.
  • DAP

    The foundation of good teaching for young children is based in engaging in practices, regardless of the setting.