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Political cartoon from the Portland Telegram criticizing the Act and depicting how it can brew resentment in immigrant communities (1922). In 1922, the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oregon sponsored an initiative to require all school-age children to attend public schools, officially called the Compulsory Education Act and unofficially known as the Oregon School Law. [3]
The conflict theory sees the purpose of education as a way to maintain social inequality and a way to preserve the power of those who dominate society. [17] Relations in society, in this view, are mainly based on exploitation, oppression, domination and subordination.
A range of other theories and conceptual frameworks relate to open education, including connectivism which adopts a non-linear approach to learning, influenced by complexity theory, where communities of knowledge are formed through connections forged in a networked learning environment. [15]
Identity, moral, and personality theories are questionable on a page about learning theory, which is not to say they have no relevance to education. Multiple intelligences is simply a taxonomy, not a theory, and like Bloom's taxonomy should be linked to a learning theory (if if can be so linked). Robotczar 20:32, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Learning theory describes how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a worldview, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained.
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration (with over 2,500 signatories) reads: "open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues.
As an outgrowth of critical theory, critical pedagogy is intended to educate and work towards a realization of the emancipatory goals of critical pedagogy. The theory is influenced by Karl Marx who believed that inequality is a result of socioeconomic differences and that all people need to work toward a socialized economy. [3]
"Normative philosophies or theories of education may make use of the results of [philosophical thought] and of factual inquiries about human beings and the psychology of learning, but in any case they propound views about what education should be, what dispositions it should cultivate, why it ought to cultivate them, how and in whom it should ...