In time, some ideas from these experiments and paradigm challenges may be adopted as the norm in education, just as Friedrich Fröbel's approach to early childhood education in 19th-century Germany has been incorporated into contemporary kindergarten classrooms. Other influential writers and thinkers have included the Swiss humanitarian Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi; the American transcendentalists Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau; the founders of progressive education, John Dewey and Francis Parker; and educational pioneers such as Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner, and more recently John Caldwell Holt, Paul Goodman, Frederick Mayer, George Dennison and Ivan Illich.
In time , some ideas from these experiments and paradigm challenges may be adopted as the norm in education , just as Friedrich Fröbel 's approach to early childhood education in 19th - century Germany has been incorporated into contemporary kindergarten classrooms . Other influential writers and thinkers have included the Swiss humanitarian Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ; the American transcendentalists Amos Bronson Alcott , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and Henry David Thoreau ; the founders of progressive education , John Dewey and Francis Parker ; and educational pioneers such as Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner , and more recently John Caldwell Holt , Paul Goodman , Frederick Mayer , George Dennison and Ivan Illich .
Who were the founders of progressive education?
Who were the founders of progressive education ?
John Dewey and Francis Parker
John Dewey and Francis Parker