Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.
Portrait by Francisco Javier Ramos, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid (c. 1806)
Grob, Konrad (1879), "detail", Pestalozzi with the orphans in Stans (oil on canvas painting)
The Burgdorf Castle where Pestalozzi ran his institute from 1800 to 1804
Memorial at Pestalozziwiese (Bahnhofstrasse) in Zürich, Switzerland
Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as an academic discipline, is the study of how knowledge and skills are imparted in an educational context, and it considers the interactions that take place during learning. Both the theory and practice of pedagogy vary greatly as they reflect different social, political, and cultural contexts.
Woman teaching geometry (detail of a XIV-century illuminated manuscript, at the beginning of Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath)
Germany: A kindergarten teacher facilitates play for a group of children (1960).
