The History of Education

Cristina Fernandez

1600-1700 1700-1800 1800-1900 1900-2000 1860-1960

Colonial Colonial Theorists Theorists Native

Americans

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 Colonial America Click icon to add picture

Education Key People:

Societal influences:
Views of Children: practices: • John Amos Comenius (1592-1670):
• Society believed Eastern European religious leader
• Children are on • DAME: value of that the child’s who advocated for nature as method
their own and of learning and develop through play
hard work moral development is
1600- independent character and they
would use trade
centered around
the Bible
• John Locke (1632-1704)

• Children were
1700
• Doctor and Philosopher who
skills advocated for hands on learning and
treated like small • Focused on Bible showed importance of formal
adults • Religion played education
big role, taught to
read Bible

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 Colonial America
Views of Education Societal influences: Key People:
Children: practices: • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
• Children are not is a Swiss educator who
• Hands-on • Fostering learning used like adults advocated for families living
through reflection in poverty. Arts and physical
learning
1700- • Lenient
on experience • Children learn
form their own
ed are essential
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a
1800 academic
• Play was
important
personal
experience
French Philosopher who
advocated for reforms in
environment Europe. Also, he wanted
• Using material to children to be on their own
learn

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 Theorists and Education
Key People:
Views of Children: Education Societal influences: • Robert Owen is a British
practices: educator who focused on
• Focused on • Working mothers creating moral adults
custodial care and • Hands on learning had to work to and opposed harsh
experience punishment
1800- not education
• Active learners • Lenient academics
survive
• More care of child
• Fredrich Froebel who

1900
was the father of the
• Day Nurseries than giving the First Kindergarten. He
• Explorers child an education wanted to form a formal
system of education

More people:
More people:
Elizabeth Peabody: Susan Blow: helped
focused on continue Froebel’s theory.
children's interest, She said every public
needs, and abilities school should have
kindergarten.
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 Theorists and Education Click icon to add picture

Key People:
Education practices: Societal influences:
Views of Children: • Elevated education to • Stanley Hall was the
• Focus is NOT on first American to
• Children need to science religion anymore receive his DR in
1900- be independent
• Align curriculum
• Naturalistic
observation in lab • Focused more on
Psychology and
advocated for
the scientific
2000 classrooms changing Froebelian
with stages of approach kindergarten to align
development • Focus is NOT on with his theories.
religion anymore

More people: More people:

• John Dewey: Experience with
Arnold Gesell: authentic materials/ learning
Elevated education while doing
to science • Projects and learning experience
meaningful to an individual
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 Native American Boarding Schools

• Punishments happened when students were practicing their beliefs

• Native American students begin to have a negative attitude
1860- • Starvation and beatings as a punishment
1960 • They begin to drop out and have academic failure
• Schools blame failures on Indians students