Maria Montessori (1870-1852), Italian educator who recognized the importance of "hands on" experience and believed in the natural desire of a child to learn;
Bruno Bettelheim ( 1903-1990), the controversial director of the Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago, and author of several works in child psychology, including Love is Not Enough;
John Bowlby (1907-1990), British psychoanalyst famous for his classis studies on child development and attachment theory;
Abraham Maslow
(1908-1970), the celebrated humanistic psychologist who developed a theory of human needs that has found wide acceptance;
Nicholas Hobbs (1915-1983), creator of Project Re-ED who understood the importance of working with troubled children with and within their own social milieus (see Therapeutic Approaches 3),
Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005), developmental psychologist, co-founder of Head Start and chief proponent of the
Ecological Theory of Child Development
, with applications to school and classroom.
I am open to expanding this very short list. Please send me your recommendations!
Now, we move on to define what we mean by "ED/BD" . . .
