- Jul 2023
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we regard this disappearance as an aberration, and notas an indication of progress.
disappearance [of education] as an...
there's also disappearance of context of what has gone before
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- Apr 2023
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Out of the ideas of Pestalozzi and Froebel, in the early 1900s Maria Montessorideveloped her method, depending on practical tasks such as personal care andcare for the environment, putting independence at the centre of the curriculum.
Maria Montessori's educational model stemmed from the ideas of Pestalozzi and Froebel.
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- Jan 2023
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It was Eric Williams (Capitalism and Slavery) who first developed the idea thatEuropean slave plantations in the New World were, in effect, the first factories; theidea of a “pre-racial” North Atlantic proletariat, in which these same techniques ofmechanization, surveillance, and discipline were applied to workers on ships, waselaborated by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker (The Many-Headed Hydra).
What sort of influence did these sorts of philosophy have on educational practices of their day and how do they reflect on our current educational milieu?
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- Nov 2022
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two streams of thought which run through the history of education—they areusually called the progressive and the formal.
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Forster’sAct in 1870, which mandated education for all children up to the age of 10 inBritain.
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Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis intheir classic Schooling in Capitalist America
Bowles and Gintis apparently make an argument in Schooling in Capitalist America that changes in education in the late 1800s/early 1900s served the ends of capitalists rather than the people.
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- Oct 2022
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who shockedthe world with Émile: or On Education ([1762] 1993).
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Émile, or On Education. Translated by Alan Bloom. 1762. Reprint, Basic Books, 1979. https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile/9780465019311/
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Theodulf, bishop of Orléans, hadordered that ‘the priests establish schools in every town and village.
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- May 2021
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whitneyannetrettien.com whitneyannetrettien.comWhiki1
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This has to be one of the baddest-ass things I've seen in months. I wish more people had public-facing commonplace books like this!
Bonus points that Whitney calls it a Whiki! :)
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