ECE Pioneers and Ch.1 Vocab

Believing that childhood is a special time of life, it is a valuable part of the life cycle, and play is essential to child's development (learn by doing and learn by discovery)

• Transmitting Values

• Importance of childhood

• Building block years

• Ethic of social reform

Proposed that children are not inherently evil, but naturally good.

• Jean Rousseau

• John Dewey

• John Locke

• Robert Owen

Relates to doing things well, at the right time, and for the right reason. Advocate for the ECE profession and the whole child.

• Building Block Years

• Ethic of Social Reform

• Professionalism

• Self-correcting

The time when a child learns to walk, talk, establish an identity, print, and count.

• Tabula Rosa

• Building Block Years

• Readiness

• Importance and uniqueness of childhood

A mind not affected yet by experiences, sensations, and the like. A "blank slate".

• Self-correcting

• Tabula Rosa

• Professionalism

• Building Block Years

A set of courses designed to form a whole; coordination of the various areas of study, making for continuous and harmonious learning.

• Readiness

• Tabula Rosa

• Ethic of Social Reform

• Intergrated Curriculum

Materials or experiences that are built or arranged to that the person using them can act automatically to correct errors.

• Self-correcting

• Readiness

• Building Block Years

• Integrated Curriculum

The quality of programs and services needed for children under eight and the education reforms that provide it.

• Professionalism

• Tabula Rosa

• Ethic of Social Reform

• Transmitting Values

Helping children learn and accept basic values of the family and community has been one of the reasons for education for centuries.

• Readiness

• Importance and Uniqueness of Childhood

• Building Block Years

• Transmitting Values

The condition of being ready, such as being in the state or stage of development so that the child has the capacity to understand, be taught, or engage in a particular activity.

• Self-correcting

• Integrated Curriculum

• Readiness

• Building Block Years