Theory Handout
ECHS 1540
April 19, 2014
Kayelin Pascua
Arnold Gesell
My article is about Arnold Lucius Gesell and he was a psychologist and pediatrician who works on child development studies and was well known for it. Gesell studied children to see how they learn and discover new things. He wanted to know everything about child development. He was born on June 21, 1880 in Alma, Wisconsin. Gesell was a brother of five. He watched his siblings grow up and develop and that's when he was interested in the child development. When Arnold Gesell was younger his parents valued education and early in his life as well. Gesell graduated high school in 1896. After he graduated high school he went to school to become a teacher and principle. He wanted to do something more with children so he went to the University of Wisconsin and received his bachelors of pharmacy in 1903.
English: Joseph Jastrow Polski: Joseph Jastrow
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The new child development center at Joint Base Pea...He thought that it would be better if he went to medical school so that his research would be more knowledgeable. Than that year he met a professor of psychology named Joseph Jastrow. After Gesell met Jastrow he went to Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. He was introduced to child development and that is where Gesell eared his doctor of philosophy in 1906. For a couple years he was a professor of psychology and child hygiene at California State Normal School in Los Angeles. On February 18, 1909 Gesell married Beatrice Chandler. After he got married he studied at Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children and also went to Vineland, New Jersey, as the director Henry Goddard of psychological research were doing tests on feebleminded children. Feebleminded means they are unable to make big decisions and judgments. When Gesell went to Vineland he knew that was the start of...