Johann Friedrich Herbart
German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline (1776-1841)
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Herbart put pedagogy on the academic map as a German philosopher obsessed with how learning actually works. His psychological framework shaped teaching theory for centuries.
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Johann Friedrich Herbart was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline.
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