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- In the decade after he received the first US PhD in psychology (Harvard, 1878), Hall led the academic and popular Child Study Movement to evaluate how children learned and grew, and how to harness this for social progress.
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Oct 14, 2016 · In his earliest child study investigation Hall sought to ascertain exactly what children do and do not know upon their initial entry to school. To do so, he enlisted Boston educators to quiz children, three at a time, about their knowledge of the world (Hall, 1883).
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May 28, 2013 · In the decade after he received the first US PhD in psychology (Harvard, 1878), Hall led the academic and popular Child Study Movement to evaluate how children learned and grew, and how to harness this for social progress.
Jan 1, 1982 · G. Stanley Hall was an emblematic figure in all this, in part an actor intent on his own vision, in part an impresario, setting forth a stage on which various groups could project their disparate interests in child study. Six groups with six motives took an interest in child study.
- A W Siegel, S H White
- 1982
There Hall discovered the value of the questionnaire for psychological research. Later he and his students devised more than 190 questionnaires, which were instrumental in stimulating the upsurge of interest in the study of child development.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The current article reviews the life and contributions of G. Stanley Hall, and the dual role Hall played in history as a revered leader of the Child Study Movement and a controversial figure in the landscape of early child psychology.
- Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Anna Duncan Johnson
- 2006
According to Hall, the child repeats cultural evolution in his or her play. Hall developed a stage model of development and argued that before the age of 8, a child ought to be free in expressing his or her spirits, and only after the age of 8 should formal learning occur.
The Harvard lectures on pedagogy, together with his psychological training, allowed Hall to craft a public persona as an educational expert within the nation’s burgeoning child study movement, which sought to study children in order to improve educational and parenting practices (Davidson & Benjamin, 1987).
