Pestalozzi

Felipe Abarca
Carolina Hinojosa
Aldo Vegas

1) What is the historical context of this character?

The historical context of Pestalozzi is in the children and more nursery learning. He was in the France revolution helping politically in the education of war orphan and poor children.

2) Describe the character. Mention the main aspects of his life

He was a reckless child at school, without improved skills but his naturalism pedagogy tells about education as an intuitive process. He has a great admiration of Rousseau and his ideas about naturalism, the importance of teaching in equality of sex, the importance of the physical education as Grecian taught.

3) What does this carácter propound in education?

Pestalozzi’s pedagogy focuses on in elementary education and, since 1811, he and his collaborators named the pestazollian system with the name of “very elemental education”.  His education propound that the process of human development (sensitive, intelectual and moral) follows the same evolutive course of the child’s nature, without artificially skip steps of the same.  Pestalozzi sees the education as a “help” that is given to the child in this process to fulfill themselves and the educative and teaching activity is seen as an “art”.  It is from vital importante in Pestalozzi’s pedagogy his method of intuition, through which they can develop his proposal in education.

4) What is the role of the teacher in his model?

The teacher is more a mediator or guide than a conductor. As we see here, Pestalozzi thinks that children have to learn in harmony with nature, but they only need help.  It is the teacher who adapts himself to the child’s mental development and not otherwise.  The teacher doesn’t push the situation, he creates an proper enviroment through sensitive intuition of thing as a global perspectiva.

5) What is the role of the student in this model?

Pestalozzi says that the pedagogy of love, we need to trust on the students’ capacities, because the education follows the humanity development.

6) Give an example of his model in a specific situation.

Pestalozzi  indicates we should enrich the memory of children with simple explanations of objects and material.  In this case students could remember all that has been taught because of the pleasure to learn something new that a tutor who children love, it is easier to get.