Rheta devries biography
Rheta devries biography
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Rheta DeVries
American psychologist
Rheta Goolsby DeVries | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 1, |
| Died | May 28, |
| Institutions | University of Northern Iowa |
Rheta Goolsby DeVries (1 September , Arkansas – 28 May , Little Rock, Arkansas)[1][2] was a professor at University of Northern Iowa's Regent's Center For Early Developmental Education,[3] where she also served as director.
She co-wrote many books along with Constance Kamii, concerning early childhood education curriculum that both influenced the field of early childhood mathematical instruction and accelerated the proliferation of constructivist-based teaching in the classroom.
Constructivist approaches
Like Kamii, DeVries studied under Jean Piaget and they shared the same interest in children's sociomoral development, construction of numbers and arithmetic, and understanding of reading and writing.[4] Drawing from Piaget's theory, particularly, his ideas on moral, social, effe