| A | B |
|---|
| John Locke | Founder of educational philosophy; believed children are born as blank slates |
| Friedrich Frobel | Founder of kindergarten, believed experiences help children understand the world they live in |
| Jean Piaget | Children develop through four stages; Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete, and Formal |
| Lev Vygotsky | Children's cultural background effect development |
| Erik Erikson | Social/emotional theorist; eight stages of development |
| Maria Montessori | Children develop at their own pace using their senses |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | Moral development avoids punishment |
| Benjamin Bloom | influenced academic educational psychology |
| Arnold Gesell | Established the normative theory; gradients of growth, maturation |
| Sigmund and Anna Freud | Created with the finding of child psychoanalysis |
| Abraham Maslow | Created a hierarchy of human needs |
| Howard Gardner | Multiple Intelligences' |
| Albert Bandura | Children meet their goals through self-efficacy judgments; including modeling |
| Daniel Levinson | Experiences shaped by social and physical environments |
| Robert Coles | Cultural literacy supersedes moral literacy |
| B.F. Skinner | Operant conditioning; reinforcing stimulus |
| Urie Bronfenbrenner | childs environment affect their growth |
| John Dewey | Key person for how we teach today; hands-on approach |
| Hormace Mann | The father of education; everyone is entitled education |
