Teaching philosophies
Behaviorism Scholars
Cognitivism Scholars
Humanism Scholars
Constructivism Scholars
100

The idea that all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment.

What is behaviorism?

100

organized and communicated the behaviorism approach

Who is John B. Watson?

100

developed the John Dewey theory of learning by doing

Who is John Dewey?

100

developed Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory based on the belief every student has the following five needs

Who is Abraham Maslow?

100

an approach in early education or preschool philosophy focusing on four principles of a child’s development

Who is Reggio Emilia?

200

an approach to life based on reason and our common humanity, recognizing that moral values are properly founded on human nature and experience alone

What is humanism?

200

developed the theory in which learning happens through a process called classical conditioning


Who is Ivan Pavlov?

200

developed the social learning theory

Who is Albert Bandura?

200

founded humanistic approach to psychology

Who is Carl Rogers?

200

developed the social development theory

Who is Lev Vygotsky?

300

the theory that says learners construct knowledge rather than just passively take in information.

What is constructivism?

300

developed operant conditioning which was built from Pavlov’s theory

Who is B.F. Skinner?

300

developed the scaffolding theory

Who is Jerome Bruner?

400

a learning theory that focuses on how information is received, organized, stored and retrieved by the mind

What is cognitivism?

400

indicated children’s thinking process takes a completely different approach compared to adults

Who is Jean Piaget?