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Contributors to Early Childhood Education

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  • Who developed psychosocial stages of development for children where the parent and educator play an important role in supporting children's success in every stage?
    Erik Erikson
  • Who believed children learn through interacting with their environment?
    Jean Piaget
  • Who was the founder of the Reggio Emilia approach?
    Loris Malaguzzi
  • Who believed that learning is rooted in sensory exploration?
    John Amos Comenius
  • Who stressed that the ordinance of social-emotional development is a key component of the early childhood curriculum?
    Erik Erikson
  • Who believed that an educator's job is to promote children's interests for discovery and inquiry?
    John Dewey
  • Who developed the term "blank slate," which is also known as tabula rasa?
    John Locke
  • Who believed that children learn through play?
    Friedrich Froebel
  • Who is the concept of educating children attributed to?
    Martin Luther
  • Who developed the Zone of Proximal Development?
    Lev Vygotsky
  • Who was the creator of what is now known as the Waldorf education philosophy and schools?
    Rudolf Steiner
  • Who believed that social interaction promotes cognitive, social, and language development in children?
    Lev Vygotsky
  • Who believed that children should be educated so that they could read on their own?
    Martin Luther
  • Who established the first private kindergarten in the United States and taught students in German?
    Margarethe Schurz
  • Who believed the learning environment is essential to learning and senses should be educated first?
    Maria Montessori
  • Who founded the first public kindergarten with William T. Harris in St. Louis, Missouri in 1873?
    Susan Blow
  • Who founded the first kindergarten?
    Friedrich Froebel
  • Who believed that children learning how to read would benefit society?
    Martin Luther
  • Who was the founder of HighScope and focused on children's cognitive maturation?
    David Weikart
  • Who wrote the first children's book to promote literacy?
    John Amos Comenius