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322 BCE
Educational Problems
In many writings Aristotle expresses interest in educational problems in order to contribute to the formation of men. -
354
Related works
St. Augustine in his Confessions speaks of the importance of educating with love. -
478
Children Responsabilities
Women took their time for dressing their children so that adults don’t have to pay attention of them. -
Period: May 11, 1492 to Jul 29, 1540
Different education for children
Luis Vives expressed an interest in the child's development, for individual differences, for the education of " abnormal" and the need to adapt education to individual cases and levels. -
Period: to
Thoughts and criticism
Some thinkers were concerned to adapt education to the child and criticize traditional teaching practices. -
Neglection
There was a massive mortality and abandonment of children in the streets and churches. -
Period: to
State of childhood
Abad Bérulle wrote: “There is no worse, more vile and abject, after death, that childhood. A concern for children was observed. The child is conceived as a homunculus (miniature man). -
The role of the mother
Comenius said “we should educate both boys and girls and the role of the mother as first educator”. -
Changes in teaching
Felipe prohibits grammar taught in the homes of "foundlings" breaking the tradition of the church in favor of the lower classes. -
Experiences and habits
Locke insists on the importance of experience and habits proposing a vision of the newborn as a tabula rasa. the child is not born good or evil, but all he gets to do and be dependent on their experiences. -
Hospital
Creation of the first hospital for abandoned children -
Education for all
The bishop Comenius highlights the importance of educating everyone and affirms family is important in education. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The piece of Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Émile ou de l’éducation”. It contains basic principles of how to educate children. His most influential idea is “the child is naturally good”. -
Infant mortality
Decrease in infant mortality : the child is no longer an "inevitable loss" and gradually disappears the previous idea of the child as "necessary waste" -
Parents and children
Froebel highlights the importance of developing games for children and the need for interaction between parents and children. -
Industrial revolution
The need to provide schooling was a primary goal because children stop going to work and they had left too many hours of entertainment. -
Adaptation and education methods
Teaching is adapted to the conditions and characteristics of children based on instructionist methods. -
Adaptation and education methods
Teaching is adapted to the conditions and characteristics of children based on instructionist methods. -
Zerda Plan
The zerda plan raises the importance of encouraging children in observation and research to feel the joy of discovery -
Teaching objective
They begin to raise questions about whether the teaching objective is for all children or whether it is suitable only for young children. -
Period: to
Minor
Appear the legal category of " minor" focusing on the punitive mechanisms - care. -
Psychology and education
It is speaking of " active methods " in the "Applied Psychology to Education Handbook". In Pestalozzi childhood is assumed as a chronological time. Pestalozzi exceeds the concept of childhood as a place of sin and error, to point as the space of the "confused intuitions "
