Chapter 5 Pioneers in Education Viewing recommendations for
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Chapter 5 Pioneers in Education Viewing recommendations for Windows: Use the Arial True. Type font and set your screen area to at least 800 by 600 pixels with Colors set to Hi Color (16 bit). Viewing recommendations for Macintosh: Use the Arial True. Type font and set your monitor resolution to at least 800 by 600 pixels with Color Depth set to thousands of colors Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company
Key Accomplishments of Educational Pioneers (Part 1) • Comenius: First picture book for learning, the Orbis Sensualum Pictus, or The Visible World in Pictures • John Locke: Introduced the concept of a child’s mind as a tabula rasa, or blank slate Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company 2
Key Accomplishments of Educational Pioneers (Part 2) • Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Revolted against theory of child depravity, that children are inherently bad. Contended in Emile, that children, instead, are ‘noble savages, ’ until corrupted by society. • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: The object lesson, a way to encourage Rousseau’s “natural education” for children in groups. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company 3
Key Accomplishments of Educational Pioneers (Part 3) • Friedrich Froebel: Kindergarten • Herbert Spencer: Utilitarian education, emphasizing practical outcomes • John Dewey: Progressive education, emphasizing problem solving • Jane Addams: Socialized education, with emphasis on responding to student diversity Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company 4
Key Accomplishments of Educational Pioneers (Part 4) • Maria Montessori: Montessori education, structuring the environment to accommodate children’s natural desire to work at learning • Piaget: Developmentally-appropriate education, based on children’s stage of cognitive development Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company 5