Who Influenced Highscope

The HighScope® approach to early education was developed in the 1962 by Dr. David Weikart and influenced by famed child psychologist Jean Piaget. The name “HighScope” expresses Dr. Weikart’s goals for children, i.e., to have High aspirations and a broad Scope of interests.

Why was HighScope created?

Highscope was developed by Dr David Weikart in America, in the early 1960’s. He discovered that children living in deprived neighbourhoods were achieving low scores as a lack of opportunity rather than low intelligence levels. … The project also felt that parents played a key role in their children’s learning.

Who is the pioneer of comparative education?

At the inception of study of comparative education as a mode of inquiry in the 19th century, pioneer Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris (b. 1775–d.