ABSTRACT

During the early 1900s, another extremely important voice joined the education debate. That voice belonged to people studying and teaching in the relatively new field of psychology, especially child psychology. While before this time individuals including Aristotle, Comenius, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Jefferson, Froebel, Mann, Barnard, and Harris had addressed some of the involved issues, coming up with models or, more often, parts of models that could be implemented as a means of achieving the desired ends, never before had these studies been formalized. Psychologists using research methodology generated hypotheses and theories, then integrated their findings to better understand child development, the best way to motivate children, the best way to discover and unleash the potential of the individual child.