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About Early Childhood Today
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How did it all begin? Where did our "big ideas" about early childhood education come from? We'll fill you in on the founders of early childhood education and their theories and approaches that are alive and well in our own classrooms today!
Friedrich Froebel: Founder, first Kindergarten
John Dewey: Father of pragmatism
Maria Montessori: A Sensory Approach to Learning
Lev Vygotsky: Playing to Learn
Jean Piaget: Champion of children's ideas