This personbelieved that children enter the world with a mind like a "tabula rasa" or blank slate.
Who is Locke?
100
Emphasis on military training, exercise, games, physical and moral training
What is Spartan education?
100
A way of using probing intellectual dialogue as a teaching method. Teacher is a role model.
What is the Socratic method?
100
He was the Father of Education because he believed school should be free and for everyone. He began the Common School movement.
Who is Horace Mann?
100
These were the forerunners of teacher education colleges. People realized there was a need for greater training for teachers.
What are normal schools?
200
This person believed education was necessary for religious instruction and provided support for compulsary elementary education.
Who was Martin Luther?
200
The goal of education was to prepare the well rounded individual for participation in citizenship.
What is education in Athens?
200
He was the first state supported teacher. Believed "study depends on the good will of the student..."
Who was Quintilian?
200
Children were taught to read and write with a heavy emphasis on the Bible and religion.
What is education in New England?
200
The Committee of Ten recommended curriculum and the mission and by the late 1800's there were compulsary education laws.
What is the beginning of high schools in the US?
300
This person was the first to emphasize scientific inquiry and critical thinking skills.
Who is Francis Bacon?
300
The emphasis was on developing an intellectual and moral citizen. This city recognized individual differences, and the importance of play and recreation.
What is education in Rome?
300
The father of progressivism: Students should discover and learn through problem solving and using the scientific method. (Child centered, and children need freedom to explore).
Who was John Dewey?
300
There was more diversity here and therefore more tolerance of people of different religions. BONUS: There were more colleges established here than any other colony during this time.
What is schooling in the mid-Atlantic colonies? Bonus: New Jersey
300
This was the era of Civil Rights, race riots, and great social unrest due to the war in Vietnam.
What are the 1960's?
400
He believed education should be child-centered. He believed in individual differences in children, and felt that children should be educated to reach their maximum potential.
Who was Johann Pestalozzi?
400
Believed in systematic learning and the development of moral character. Thought education was a science and helped further educational psychology.
Who was Johann Herbart?
400
This Italian woman started a children's school for impoverished children with a special curriculum. Students learned practical activities, as well as used materials to develop their sensory, practical, and formal skills.
Who is Maria Montessori?
400
This was the cause of major changes in the early 19th centruy.
What is increased industrialization, the move away from farms to urban centers, and the need for more skills.
400
During the 1970's there was more attention paid to people with physical and mental disabilities. Two laws were passed to insure they had physical accessability and equal opportunitites for education.
What are the Vocational Rehabilitation Act and the Education for Handicapped Act?
500
This person is known for the establishment of the first kindgarten and believed in an activity curriculum and the promotion of creativity in the child.
Who is Freidrich Foebel?
500
Father of modern child psychology. Proponent of naturalism.
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
500
This person founded the Hull House and was a pioneer in social work, the peace movement and women's rights. She developed her socialized education philosophy and rejected the curriulcum that limited women's choices and opportunities.
Who is Jane Addams?
500
Education was based mostly on class and social status.
What is education in the Southern colonies?
500
In 1983 this report was a call to action for the US and then in the year 1990, this was the reaction to that report (Hint: Educate America Act 1994).
What is "A Nation at Risk" and the National Education Goals?