AEE 501 Foundations of Agricultural and Extension Education
Class 12 Leaders of Educational Thought 
 
Distant Relatives Close Relatives Modern Leaders
Comenius Seaman Knapp Malcom Knowles
Rousseau Charles Prosser H. M. Hamlin
Pestalozzi Rufus Stimson J. Robert Warmbrod
Basedow Booker T. Washington Ed Boone
Horace Mann David Snedden Jerry Apps

John Dewey Stephen Brookfield

Eduard Linderman AAAE Fellows
Introduction: Agricultural and Extension Education has a proud family tree. We can trace our heritage to a number of prominent thinkers during the past decades and centuries. In this lesson we will learn more about our ancestors.

 
Lesson Objectives:
At the completion of the lesson you should be able to:
Identify the current leaders in the field of agricultural and extension education.
Identify the individuals responsible for the development of the field of agricultural and extension education.
Identify the historical leaders of educational thought.

 
Learning Activities:
Take the Leaders of Educational Thought  pre-test to see how much you need to learn.
Read Moore and Gaspard's article "The Quadrumvirate of Vocational Education" from Journal of Technical Education; vol. 4, number 1, Fall 1987
View brief vignettes of some leaders of educational thought:
 
Comenius
Rousseau
Pestallozzi
Basedow
Mann
Dewey

View a PowerPoint Presentation on Leaders of Educational Thought. Download the PowerPoint presentation.


 
Assignments:
Complete worksheet 12

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