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Theorists
Maria Montessori
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Maria Montessori was a visionary, not easily daunted by the many challenges she faced during her career.
Montessori’s thinking does reflect the moral and individualistic paradox of the Victorian era, however.
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Erik Erikson
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In 1970, Erikson won a Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
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Erikson impacted psychological theories by expanding upon Freud’s original five stages of development.
In his late seventies Erikson thought about writing a full-scale autobiography, perhaps as a further illustration of that final stage of psychosocial development.
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John Dewey
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He had his last book published at the age of 90, two years before his death.
He was a founder of functional psychology and one of the earliest developers of philosophy of pragmatism.
In 1928, he was invited to the USSR, where he visited a number of schools.
In 1943, he received Copernicus citation.
In 1930, Dewey retired from Columbia University, but continued to take occasional classes as professor emirates until 1937.
During his stay in China, Dewey gave at least two hundred lectures, which were attended by thousands of people.
Jean Piaget
He was awarded 16 honorary doctorates from various universities around the globe for his ground-breaking work.
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Jean Piaget developed an early interest in natural history and by the age of 15 he had published several papers on mollusks.
His research led him to believe that the process of intellectual development is based on assimilation and accommodation.
Piaget proposed a theory of cognitive developmental stages with individuals displaying patterns of cognition common to each age group.
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During the 1970’s and 1980’s Piaget’s work transformed education, leading to a more child-centered approach.
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Lev Vygotsky
His essay, ‘Consciousness as a problem in the Psychology of Behavior’ was published in 1925 while ‘Educational Psychology’ was out in 1926.
He was a prolific writer, publishing six books on psychology topics over a ten-year period.
Lev Vygotsky died of Tuberculosis on June 11th, 1934, in Moscow, Russia.
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Lev Vygotsky died of Tuberculosis on June 11th, 1934, in Moscow, Russia.
He made major contributions to the field of psychology, especially in the areas of Human Development, Historical cultural theory, and Development of thought and language.
He went through a period of massive self-criticism and began the reconstruction of his theories after realizing the numerous deficiencies in them.
He was a pioneering psychologist with diverse interests in the fields of developmental psychology, child development, and education.