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Recognized different stages of childhood and proposed that the curriculum should include games, music, stories, and drama.

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Believed education should be for all children. Individual literacy is important and all aspects of development are important.

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He was considered the father of early childhood.  He believed that education would improve society.

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Believe that the child is a blank slate. He believe that nurture was more important than nature.

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He believed that children were born with sin. He believed that education should start at birth.

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He believed the first year of life is the most important in the childs development.

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He believed infant school for children under five should be established.

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Believed that education should begin with the young child and both boys and girls should be educated.  Play is a valuable tool for learning.

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The impact he had was later educational philosophers incorporated these ideas in their work. 

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The impact he had was later educational philosophers incorporated these ideas in their work. 

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He thought that from birth-age 6 is the highest importance for human development

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Language is the foundation for later learning.

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Use of toys, puzzles, and blocks in education

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Education of young children can transform the nature of people and society.

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Natural consequences will teach children right from wrong.

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Do not pressure children to learn.

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He believed play was important and he had a big influence of American Kindergarten.

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He believed in sensory learning, stories, singing, dance, nature studies, and physical exercise.

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He believed all children have the right to education and that they have the capacity to profit from it.

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Instruction should be adapted to each child's interest, abilities, and stage of development.

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The impact he focused on was sensory, exploration, and self-paced learning.

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He created the first Kindergarten in Germany.

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He believed the teacher is an affectionate leader.

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Play is an essential part of the educational process. He believed in social play.

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Practices still used today:
clay work, paper cutting, block building, finger plays, singing, drawing.

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Children learn best from direct experience and exploration of the environment. Children learn through their own undirected play.

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He believed prolonged swallowing was not good for children.

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He believed in playful teaching and focusing on the child in education.

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There was three forms of knowledge that he saw for the basis for all learning.
1. knowledge of forms of life (gardening, domestic tasks)
2. knowledge of forms of mathematics (geometric forms and their relationships)
3. knowledge of forms of beauty (design with colors, shapes, and harmonies)

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They started the nursery school program for low income children ages 18 months to 7 years.

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Goals were to provide love and care for children and to model for teachers how to work with young children.

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The believed in the "sense of wonder" and that teachers should know what attracts and engages children.

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They taught parents how to improve their ways of caring for and interacting with children.

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Outdoor work and play is still prevalent in nursery schools today. Sensory actives and creative expression actives are still important today.

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Believed in progressive education.  Sought to use science and reason to improve mankind.

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He became the progressive movements most influential spokes person.

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Goals: improve society through schooling, help people develop their full potential, educate the child as a whole (physical, intellectually, and socially), to prepare citizens to live in a democratic society.

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This education included cooperation of problem solving, as well as real life experiences.

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He used unit block to represent what they children have learned.

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He believed children should work together to complete projects related to their own interests.

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She was one of the first women with a medical degree in Italy.

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She believed intelligence is stimulated by experience, children learn best through sensory exploration, learning is sequential.

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Distinctive features: orderly child sized learning environment and child sized furniture, mixed aged grouping, children work independently.

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His method is known today as Waldorf Education.

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Goals:
to develop free human beings who have purpose and direction in their lives and to achieve balanced development of young children (mind, body, and spirit).

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Significant ideas:
- from birth to seven years, children respond through movement and are sensitive to the environment.
- Warmth and security are important.
- Teachers should protect early childhood and imitation and example are important strategies for learning.

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Distinctive features:
- mixed aged grouping (three years with same teacher in preschool/kindergarten)
- natural materials for children to use in sensory and creative pursuits
- he created a warm homelike aesthetic environment in the classroom

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Hired by Kaiser Shipyards in 1943 to run the child care centers provided for shipyard workers, ages 18 months to 6 years and open 24 hours a day. It also had an infirmary.

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Food and nutrition was the key component to the program success. She sent hot meals home with children and families.

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She created the first publicEnglish speaking Kindergarten in Boston.

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She created the first teacher education program in the US, which was in St. Louis MO.

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Believed strongly in the value of children's play.

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She had a library full of books with different languages.

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She taught African and Native American children. She believed in a free society.

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He passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This emphasizes equal access to education and established high standards and accountability. This was a cornerstone for the War on Poverty.

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He established Head Start.

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He created Title 1, that distributed funding to schools with a high percentage of students from low income families.

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He created Title 2, which supported school libraries in both private and public schools, and funded preschool programs.

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He created Title 3, stated that supplementary education centers and services would receive funding for additional support services to raise school attendance. It also provided for special education and related services in rural areas.

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He created Title 4, allocated 100 million dollars over a five year period to fund educational research and training.

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He created Title 5, supplemented grants created under public law to state departments.