Educational Approach
Hennepin Technical College
Fathima Sadiki
Introduction to Early Childhood Careers 1105-30
Carla Weigel
04/16/2015

The Theoretical origin of the field:
Theory is figure of knowledge used to outline, clarify, and foretell the behavior. Theory is represent the starting point of intentional curriculum. Also it give the idea “why” effective practice. All the element are tied up together when it come up to development of children. Theory notifies planning, then it will affects the implementation of curriculum, and each informs appropriate assessment. The final result of the assessment feedback to theory.
The origins of early childhood education is discover in 16th century work of Martin Luther (1483 -1546). Many finding of the early childhood education to the work of Martin Luther. From this foundation many theories has been found. They found the how to give the best education for young children.
There are four main theories. * Psychoanalytic theory - it pressure that what happens to you as a child affects you as an adult. * Cultural transmissionists /behaviorism – main factor for child development is environment. * Maturationists – child natural development is the fact of child development. * Constructivism – Child development effect by how the child interact with the environment and peers.
Now there are three theoretical prospective which early childhood educators fall into; Maturationists, behaviorist, constructivism.
Maturationism is an early childhood educational philosophy asserting the child as a growing system in which information exists. Maturationists believe “genetic factors play a larger role in development than environmental ones” (Maturationist, 2005). The living process of development is the growing of inventible stages and organized patterns of behavior. The child is supposed to gain knowledge “naturally and