GCU Influential People Investigative Report

Below you will find a list of influential people in the field of Early Childhood Education; choose one person on the list. Use your textbook, Internet, and other sources to find out about that person. The report will need to be at least 2 pages typed.

Following are some suggested questions to answer. Do not limit yourself to only these questions; mention anything that you think is relevant or interesting. Provide a picture if possible (included in your page requirement).

· What time period was this person influential?

· What accomplishments are associated with this person?

· Were the accomplishments lasting? How?

· How did this person influence the field of early care and education?

· With what organization/university is the person associated?

· What type of education/qualifications did this person have?

· What was this person’s personal life like?

· Name some practical impacts this person had on the education field.

(i.e. curriculum, standard practices, etc.)

List of Influential People in the Early Childhood Education field:

Plato Martin Luther John Comenius John Locke Jean-Jacques Rousseau Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Robert Owen Friedrich Froebel Horace Mann Maria Montessori John Dewey Erik Erikson Jean Piaget Urie Bronfenbrenner

Constance Kamil Bernard Spodek David Weikart Larry Schweinhart Bettye Caldwell Alice Sterling Honig Sue Bredekamp Barbara Bowman Lilian Katz James Hymes Marian Wright Edelman Bertha Campbell Edward Zigler Vivan Paley

Docia Zavitkovsky Loris Malaguzzi T. Berry Brazelton Howard Gardner Daniel Goleman Stanley Greenspan Sharon Lynn Kagan Jay Belsky Roger Neugebauer Abraham Maslow B. F. Skinner Lev Vygotsky Albert Bandura ­ Sigmund Freud