Pioneers of

Modern Teaching
EM202 FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION

Presenter: Noah Gene B. Del Rio

Jane Addams Maria Montessori Jean Piaget Paulo Freire
Jane Addams 1860 - 1935
 She was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of
nine children. Her father was a prosperous miller
and local political leader who served for sixteen
years as a state senator and fought as an officer in
the Civil War; he was a friend of Abraham Lincoln.
 Graduated at the Rockford University in 1881.
 Social worker, public administrator, sociologist
community organizer and author.
 She aided America in addressing and focusing on
topics that women were concerned about, such as
children's needs, local public health, and world
peace.
 Hull House
 Co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen
Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of
the city, Hull House (named after the original
house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull)
 Her work was to improve the lives of Chicago
immigrants and transform policy on
education, public health, labor practices, and
immigrant rights.
 Hull House began as a kindergarten, but it
quickly grew to include a day nursery and an
infancy care facility. Its educational facilities
eventually expanded to include secondary and
college-level extension classes, as well as
nighttime classes on civil rights and civic
responsibilities.
Maria Montessori 1870 - 1952
 Born in Chiaravalle, Italy and at the age of 5 her family
moved to Rome. Graduated at the University of Rome
in 1896. The first woman ever in Italy to graduate
with a medical degree.
 She became a physician, educator and innovator,
acclaimed for her method builds on the way children
learn naturally.
 Opened the first Montessori school—the Casa dei
Bambini, or Children’s House—in Rome on January 6,
1907.
 Developed Montessori method based on self-directed
activity, hands on learning and collaborative play.
 Montessori Method
 Respect for the child
 The Absorbent Mind
 Sensitive Periods
 The Prepared Environment
 Auto Education

Children can learn through their own

experience and at their own pace. They can
respond at any moment to the natural
curiosities that exist in all humans and build
a solid foundation for life-long learning.
 Jean Piaget 1896 - 1980
 He was born in Switzerland, a Swiss psychologist
who first to make a systematic study of the
acquisition of understanding in children.
 In 1923, Piaget married Valentine Chatenay. The
couple were eventually to raise three children,
Jaqueline, Lucienne, and Laurent, all of whom had
a significant impact on Piaget's work.
 Piaget researched his own three children's
intellectual development and developed a
hypothesis that outlined the stages that children
go through as they develop intelligence and
formal cognitive processes.
 Today, he is best known for his research on
children's cognitive development.
4 Stages of Cognitive
Development
 Sensorimotor Stage:
Object Permanence
 Preoperational Stage:
Symbolic thought
 Concrete Operational Stage:
Operational thought
 Formal Operational Stage:
Abstract Concept
 Paulo Freire 1921 - 1997
 Born in Northeast of Brazil, in the city of Recife.
He entered the Recife University and developed
theories that have been used, principally in Third
World countries, to bring literacy to the poor and
to transform the field of education.
 Freire, like Dewey, believed that each student
should play an active role in their own learning,
instead of being the passive recipients of
knowledge.
 1968 published his book, the Pedagogy of the
Oppressed, where he outlined the characteristics
of what he called Critical Pedagogy.
 Critical Pedagogy
• Teachers stop being lecturers to become
listeners and with this motivate discussion
and the exchange of ideas.

• Reshapes the relationship between

teachers and students.

• Teacher guides their students and they

become co-creators of their own
knowledge.

• Conscientizacao raising critical awareness

of students.
References:

• https://www.womenshistory.org/education-
resources/biographies/jane-addams
• https://amshq.org/About-Montessori/History-of-
Montessori/Who-Was-Maria-Montessori
• https://www.healthline.com/health/piaget-stages-of-
development#stages
• https://iep.utm.edu/freire/
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