Influential Educators And Education Program - 1136 Words

Influential Educators and Education Program By Whitney Holley-Newport Stephen F. Austin State University John Dewey It is important to know where the ideas of the way children learn came from. One educator that had a significant influence on education and the way the world teaches and learns is John Dewey. He had different, interesting, and new ideas for the development of children and teaching children in a classroom. John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and an educational reformist who was born on October 20, 1859 in Vermont and received his masters from John Hopkins University (Gouinlock, 2014, para. 2). During his schooling he married his first wife and began his family (Soltis, 2002). Rousseau and†¦show more content†¦10). Dewey wrote many famous books in his career to contribute to the education world. In 1899 John Dewey became President of American Psychological Association and was it was said that John Dewey was not a philosopher but the philosopher (Neatby, 1953). John Dewey made such an impact in early childhood education; his ways of teaching are still aroun d today. Erik Erikson Another influential educator would be Erik Erikson by developing his own theory of education. On June 15, 1902 Erik Erikson was born in Germany. Anna Freud greatly impacted Erickson’s life (Cherry, 2015, para. 2). Erickson’s theory consists of 8 stages of an individual person. His theory was propelled by his own wonders of life development of humans (Cherry, 2015, section 3, para. 2-3). According to Wendy Sharkey (1997, section 2) these are the stages and occurrences of a child to adult: The first stage in Erikson’s theory happens at birth to age one. This stage compares Trust vs. Mistrust and this stage is about the simplicities of an infant needing to be held, fed, or just loved on. Doing this instills trust in a child but if mistrust occurs and no nourishing happens a child can become dishonest. In stage two, at age two, Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt. Parents help build a young child and develop self-control. If a parent is overbearing a child wil l develop a sense of shame (Sharkey, 1997, para. 3). Stage three, Initiative vs. Guilt occurs at age four and five and during this stage a sense of