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3. - He was a German.
- He believed that all boys
should be educated.
- He insisted on the
and

4. - He suggested that all
children should attend
school.
- He integrated hands on
curriculum.

5. - He believed that
children should learn to
speak by speaking, to
write by writing, and to
reason by reasoning.

7. - He taught that educational
decisions should be made
on the basis of the child’s
Nature.
- He developed a stage
theory of child
development.

8. - He believed that children
from birth to age five learn
best from
- Children from five to twelve
learn best by
in their
environment.

9. - He believed in having
children participate in real,
meaningful activities and in
grouping children of various
ages.
- The older ones could help
the younger ones.

11. - He was a German
educationalist.
- He laid the foundations
for modern Education
system.
- He was the youngest of
a family of six.

12. - His father was a pastor
and his mother died when
he was nine months old.
- He visited Johann Pestalozzi's
instructions, he accepted his
basic principles.

13. - Froebel’s view was linked
closely to religious principles.
- He felt that Pestalozzi’s
theory lacked spiritual content,
which according to him
was the foundation of early
education.

14. -In 1840 he created the word
(Children’s Garden)
Institute.

15. - He believed that child’s
education began at Birth.
- He Developed the (series
materials).

16. - Objects that were fixed
in form such as

19. - Allowed more freedom
and consisted of things
that children could
shape and manipulate.

21. - Seen as a reminder of
God’s plan for moral
and social behavior.

22. - Prussian Government did
not agree with Froebel's
idea.
He died 1852 not knowing his
work would have an impact on
the school system around the
world particularly in USA.

23. The First
Kindergarten
commenced in
the USA was by

24. Incorporated
kindergarten
into the public
school system.

28. G. Stanley Hall John Dewey

29. - In her Lecture she encouraged her
heirs no to follow blindly Froebel’s
theory.
- She suggested alternative ideas which
were slow to be accepted until John
Dewey became the head of the
university.
- She was influenced by John Dewey’s
principles in education.

30. - She felt that children needed
socialization and free play to develop
their future potentials.
- She developed a new set of
which were called
- These are 16 times bigger than
Froebel’s blocks.

32. - She believed in free expression in art
and music.
- Patty and her sister introduced children
to bells, triangles and other instrument.
- The purpose was to call the children
using those instrument.
- She created the song “ Happy birthday
to you”.

33. - He was an influential educational
Philosopher in the united States in
the early 1900s.
- Connected with the
which gained
momentum until the time of
- Many of his ideas are now
considered traditional.

34. - He believed that curriculum
experiences school be based on
children’s interests and engage them
in these activities.
- Example collect plants, animal life
and compare with others. But also
maintained with these activities was
not enough for learning.
- It was a very Teacher Centered
curriculum.

35. - Dewey’s ideas have often misinterpreted
to mean that children should do only
what they are interested in and that any
kind of experiences is valuable for
learning.
- Dewey was concerned that in the
democratic United States , the schools
failed to reach large segments of the
population and that the teaching
methods satisfied individual growth and
development.

36. - Early childhood educator
benefited from John Dewey in
developing an active curriculum
and also a curricula that reflects
the interest of the children.
- Teachers would be responsible for
achieving the goals set by the
school.

37. - Children were encouraged to learn
to work in groups and to learn
about the interdependence of
people in the community and
nation.

38. - Founded the Bureau of
- Education Experiments in 1916
- John Dewey influenced her
work.
- She taught that children
learned when they were
interested in the materials. She
was interested in the
development of the

39. “Whole Child”
 Physically
 Socially
 Intellectually
 Emotionally
- The was a quoted
phrase by her.

40. - Stimulating each child to unfold
as fully possible but at her on
his own pace.
- Welcoming individual
children’s conversation and
other forms of self- expression.
- Promoting learning through
play.
- Individualizing

41. - Avoiding teacher- given
external rewards because the
reward of learning through
meaningful activity is seeing a
challenge and solving the
problem oneself.

42. - Mitchell organized a workshop
for writers of children’s
literature.
- She was a leader in
educationalist research and
was greatly involved in
developing and implementing a
hands on curriculum.

47. - One of his major studies was
and in Human
Characteristics.
- His findings, like hunts, gave early
childhood education more resents
to be concerned with the quality of
educational experiences for young
children.
- Bloom also had the concept of
mastery learning.
- The child could master tasks
presented to them at school.

48. - He studied the development of
language, play, thinking, and
curriculum.
- He wrote q quote “ any subject
can be taught effectively in
some intellectually honest form
to any child in any stage of
development.”
- The statement itself has often
been misinterpreted.

50. - At the turn of the 20th century child care was
established in the S of big cities
in USA.
- Belief in and practices of this idea declined as the
century progressed.
- They advocated that Mothers should take care of their
own children.
- The works created
nursery schools during the and

51. - These schools were established to allow mothers to
take part in a war effort.
- Sadly, when funding ended so did the programs.
- Efforts were made again the 1970s and also in the
1990s when positive steps were taking to “fund “
programs that benefited children.

53. - Hill defined
Kindergarten as, “A
Specialized School
adopted to the nature
and needs of young
children from the
fourth to the sixth
year.”

54. - The first Kindergarten
commenced in
Germany 1837 by
Froebel.
- In USA by
Margaretha Schurz in
1855

55. - The first English
speaking Kindergarten
was opened in1860 by
Elizabeth Peabody.
- In St. Louise 1873 the
first publicly supported
Kindergarten was
opened by Susan Blow

56. - Today State LAW requires parents
to send their children to school at 5
years of age.
- Almost all states have Kindergarten
operating and are publicly supported.

58. - Programs in the early 1900s shared the
same goal as in the 1800, to help the poor
families living in this advantage areas
- Modern day programs are committed to
the same ideals.
- A movement called “ ”
provides educational- social – medical –
dental etc. to low income pre-school
children.

59. Over 800,000 children are enrolled in
programs. This organization has
been very beneficial to millions of children
who have attended the programs and also to
the profession of early childhood education.
“ ” was
developed to monitor and help those
children attending the HEAD START
programs.