Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: References & Edit History

Kate Silber, Pestalozzi: The Man and His Work, 4th rev. ed. (1976), containing a select bibliography of texts and literature, is the major comprehensive account of Pestalozzi’s life and personality and interpretation of his writings; a more modest but extremely useful study is Robert B. Downs, Heinrich Pestalozzi, Father of Modern Pedagogy (1975). An analysis of Pestalozzi’s educational ideas and methods is presented in Michael Heafford, Pestalozzi: His Thought and Its Relevance Today (1967); and Gerald L. Gutek, Pestalozzi and Education (1968, reissued 1999). Pestalozzi’s influence on education in the United States is explored in Thomas A. Barlow, Pestalozzi and American Education (1977).