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The History of Education in Europe (1974) Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783 (1970) Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson. The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization (1920) online Archived 2012-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
The education of the people: A history of primary education in England and Wales in the nineteenth century (Routledge, 2013) Toloudis, Nicholas. Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam: Public Education, State Centralization, and Teacher Unionism in France and the United States (Temple University Press, 2012) 213, pp. * Sorin-Avram, Virtop (2015).
Webster believed students learned most readily when complex problems were broken into its component parts. Each pupil could master one part before moving to the next. Ellis argues that Webster anticipated some of the insights associated in the 20th century with Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Webster said that children pass ...
Title page from the first edition of Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the ...
On November 24, 1925, the Texas State Board of Education adopted a policy that mandated that textbooks used in public schools should not teach or mention the theory of human evolution, but the enforcement of this policy was not entirely uniform. Some textbooks used in Texas schools still included references to human evolution, though these were ...
There are many theorists that make up early student development theories, such as Arthur Chickering's 7 vectors of identity development, William Perry's theory of intellectual development, Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development, David A. Kolb's theory of experiential learning, and Nevitt Sanford's theory of challenge and support.
Education in the sense of training was the exclusive function of families for the vast majority of children until the 19th century. In the Middle Ages the major cathedrals operated education programs for small numbers of teenage boys designed to produce priests. Universities started to appear to train physicians, lawyers, and government ...
According to him, this led to the development of religion, with the Woman and the Bull as the first sacred figures. [6] He claims that this led to a revolution in human thinking, with humans for the first time moving from animal or spirit worship to the worship of a supreme being, with humans clearly in hierarchical relation to it. [8]