Proponents of Theories
The Father of Modern Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
The Father of Psychoanalysis and Psychosexual Theory
Sigmund Freud
Proponent of Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
Proponent of Operant Conditioning
B.F. Skinner
Proponent of Meaningful Learning
David Ausubel
Proponent of Discovery Learning and Spiral Curriculum
Jerome Bruner
Proponent of Social Cognitive Theory
Albert Bandura
Law of Readiness and Exercises
Edward Lee Thorndike
Proponent of Life Space Content
Kurt Levin
Proponents of Problem Solving by Insight and Insightful Learning
Kohler
Proponent of Ecological Theory
Urie Brofenbrenner
Proponent of Gender Schema Theory
Sandra Bem
Proponent of Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
Proponent of Social Domain Theory
Elliott Torriel
Proponent of Moral Development Theory
Lawrence Kohlberg
Triathlon Theory of Intelligence
Robert Sternberg
Proponent of Psychosocial Development Theory
Erik Erikson
Proponent of Transfer of Learning, Kindergarten Preparation of Children.
Maria Montessori
Proponent of Creative Problem Solving
Edward Paul Torrance
Proponent of Linguistic Acquisition Theory
Chomsky
Proponent of Cognitive Learning Theory
Jean Piaget
Proponent of Behavioral Theory
John Watson
Proponent of Purpose Behavior
Edward Tolman
Proponent of Attribution Theory
Bernard Weiner
Proponent of Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Proponent of Structuralism Psychology
Titchener
Proponent of Sequence of Instruction
Robert Gagne
Proponent of Hierarchy of Needs, and Motivation Theory
Abraham Maslow
Proponent of Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy
Benjamin Bloom
Proponent of Affective Domain
David Krathwohl
Proponent of Socio-cultural Theory of Cognitive Development, Linguistic Theory and Scaffolding
Lev Vygotsky
Father of Liberalism and Proponent of Tabularasa
John Locke
Proponent of Looking Glass Self Theory
Charles Cooley
Proponent of Metacognition
John Flavell
Proponent of Maturation Theory
Arnold Gesell
Proponent of Learning by Doing
John Dewey
Father of Kindergarten
Friedrich Froebel
Father of Sociology
Auguste Comte
Father of Modern Education
John Amos Comenius
The Father of Empricism
Francis Bacon
Father of Holistic Education
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Proponent of Cone of Experience and Father of Modern Media in Education
Edgar Dale
Proponent of Social Regeneration of Humanity"
Jean Heinrich Pestalozzi
The Founder of Pedagogy as an Academic Discipline.
John F. Herbart
Father of Idealism
Plato
Father of Realism
Aristotle
Father of Existentialism
Søren Kierkegaard
Proponent of Perennialism
Robert Hutchin
Proponent of Essentialism
William Bagley
Proponent of Progressivism
John Dewey