While there are innumerable contributors and programs in Early Childhood Education, the influences of Caroline Pratt, Maria Montessori, and the Montessori program will be discussed. Caroline Pratt
Contributing to the progressive movement, Caroline Pratt was a ground-breaking educator. For five years Pratt was a first grade teacher, after which time the emergent kindergarten movement captured her attention (Hendry, 2008.).
Pratt attended Teacher’s College in 1892 where her philosophies and pedagogies were developed. According to Hendry (2008), she later withdrew from the institution because not agree that kindergarten classrooms should