Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Theory. 17 1827 brugg switz swiss educational reformer who advocated education of the poor and emphasized teaching methods designed to strengthen the student s own abilities. Pestalozzi saw teaching as a subject worth studying in its own right and he is therefore known as the father of pedagogy the method and practice of teaching especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.
His approach to early childhood education stemmed from his love for children and his conviction that each child held the promise of individual potential. And 3 his use of activities excursions and nature studies that anticipated progressive education. Pestalozzi felt that all children should be educated equally regardless of gender or economic conditions.
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Pestalozzi felt that all children should be educated equally regardless of gender or economic conditions. Pestalozzi s method became widely accepted and most of his principles have been absorbed into modern elementary education. In 1780 pestalozzi wrote a series of reflections the evening hours of a hermit which outlined his basic theory that education begins at home and should occur naturally through direct experience. This was followed by his masterpiece leonard and gertrude 1781 an account of the gradual reformation first of a household and then of a whole village by the efforts of a good and devoted woman.