ECED 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Margaret Mcmillan, Bank Street College Of Education
26 Jan 2017
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Chapter 2: history: exploring the beginnings of early childhood education. This chapter focuses on the history of early childhood education, beginning in the 18th. The greek philosophers, plato, aristotle, and socrates, realized that there was a need for formal education, not only to benefit their community as a whole, but to assist the individual people. In the dark and middle ages, plutarch wrote about the need to treat children more humanely. There were many individual who contributed to education, specifically the early years. Comenius, john locke, jean jacques rousseau, johann heinrich pestalozzi, jean piaget, lev. Semenovich vygotsky, john dewey, erik homburger erikson, abraham maslow, benjamin. It is important for teachers to learn about these early theorists in order to understand the beginning and see how far we have come. The majority of these early theorists were men; however, there were many american and. European women who influenced the early childhood movement: margaret mcmillan, maria.
