Contemporary age

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Adolphe Ferrière was born in Geneva in 1879 and died in 1960. He was a Swiss pedagogue, he did his university studies in Geneva. After reading the chapter on the New Schools in the work of E. Demolis, and hence his initiation into the new pedagogy.
In addition, he affirms that the purpose of education is to help the child to develop its potential and that education must be in freedom and for freedom.
For this author, education was the art of promoting and initiating in the child the development of his intelligence and morality through the use of his interests.

María Montessori this great woman created a methodology that began in Italy and is both a method and a philosophy of education, she had a great interest in educating children with mental deficiencies, in them she applied her experimental methods and ensured that these children learned to read and write.
In the same way, she believed and said that education is a natural process and through experiences.

Leon Tolstoi creator of the well-known work called "War and peace" also created a work aimed at the field of education and opened his own school which did not follow any particular methodology but had the conviction that teaching should be free as he said that "the only method was experiment and the only pedagogical criterion was freedom" with this phrase he began to give classes inico, educating the children of peasants in the open air and he did it without any authority on his part.

Ellen Key was a woman who fought for women to have the same rights as men, for this reason her focus was mainly on education, personal freedom and independent development. Her best known works of hers were individualism and socialism. In addition to all this, her work as her teacher was widely recognized. and she as a pedagogue said that children should be free to learn since that is their nature.

Jean Piaget constructivist psychologist who studied the intellectual and cognitive development of children in a philosophical and psychological way. in the same way he exerted a great influence on modern pedagogy.

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Édouard Claparède was a Swiss pedagogue and professor at the faculty of psychology and also the founder of an institute called Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which is now an institute of educational sciences. He contributed greatly to modern European pedagogy.

Francis W. Parker was a pioneer of a progressive school movement, he also got into the mechanical methods of traditional schools and highlighted quality teaching that includes different strategies that help students a lot.

He is John Dewey and he is one of the main participants and not only that but he was also a person who influenced educators around the world with the help of his writings. also laid the foundations in a philosophy which affected the educational structure at the basic level.