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Child CareHistorians
people credited with changes in child care
Question | Answer |
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John Comenius | Readiness, first picture book for children, learn by doing, play, training of the senses, the study of nature, and each child develops on their own timetable |
John Locke | each child starts with a clean slate and is not evil |
Jean Rousseau | birth to 25 years.Children are good and grow naturally from spontaneous interests and activities. Encourage vocational education |
Johann Pestalozzi | Integrated Curriculum with life situations |
Friedrich Froebel | Opened first Kindergarten in 1837—develop through the stages |
Maria Montessori | Self-Correcting materials in structured settings |
Rudolf Steiner | Spiritual development, imagination, and creative gifts. The “will” (0-7 yr olds), the “heart” (7-14 yr olds and the “head” (14 years plus) |
John Dewey | Key American in today's educational system.child oriented schools focus on nature of children like Pestalozzi and Rousseau |
Margaretha Schurz | Opened first Kindergarten in the U.S. (Watertown, WI in 1856) |
Patty Smith Hill | Wrote “Happy Birthday” and founded NAEYC |
Margaret and Rachel McMillan | Trying to get children healthy, sensory motor perception, & cognitive stimulation |
Jean Piaget | Theory of cognitive development, Object permanence |
Abigail Eliot | Brought Nursery Schools to the U.S. in 1922 |
Benjamin Spock | Permissive Parenting. Wrote “How To…” books on shaping children into sensible adults |
T. Berry Brazelton | Helps parents to understand their child’s physical and emotional growth |
Abraham Maslow | Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needsbasic needs, safety needs, psychological, or social needs, self-actualizing |