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==Background==

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Theorists like [[John Dewey]], [[Jean Piaget]] and [[Lev Vygotsky]], whose collective work focused on how students learn, have informed the move to student-centered learning. [[John Dewey]] was an advocate for progressive education, and he believed that learning is a social and experiential process by making learning an active process as children learn by doing. He believed that a classroom environment in which students could learn to think critically and solve real world problems was the best way to prepare learners for the future.<ref name="Augsburg Fortress Publishers"/>

[[Carl Rogers]]'s ideas about the formation of the individual also contributed to student-centered learning. Rogers wrote that "the only learning which significantly influences behavior [and education] is self discovered".<ref name="Kraft, R. G. 1994 Pg. 41">Kraft, R. G. (1994). Bike riding and the art of learning. In L. B. Barnes, C. Roland Christensen, & A. J. Hansen (Eds.), Teaching and the case method. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, Pg. 41</ref> [[Maria Montessori]] was also a forerunner of student-centered learning, where preschool children learn through independent self-directed interaction with previously presented activities.