Background Information: Biographies


Biographies can help situate the person you are researching:

  • Who are they?
  • Where do they come from?
  • How did they impact how we think about working with young children?

Try searching these library databases for biographies of the ECE theorist you are researching.  You will need your Canvas login to access these collections.

For some ECE theorists, such as Magda Gerber, Emmi Pilker, and Evageline Ward, you may not find anything.  Someone still needs to write their biography!  For these theorists, try Wikipedia or Advanced Google Search:

Gerber smilling with flowers

About Magda Gerber Links to an external site.

Freire sitting

Paulo Freire Biography Links to an external site.

Piaget laughing and pointing

Jean Piaget Biography Links to an external site.


Citations & Attributions:  

"Paulo Freire portrait Links to an external site.." Gale Biography , Gale, 2011.

"Magda Gerber. Links to an external site." Magda Gerber, Seeing Babies with New Eyes, n.d.

"Jean Piaget Links to an external site.." Gale Biography , Gale, 2010.