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The history of education, like other history, extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from ancient civilizations. Historical studies have included virtually every nation. Historical studies have included virtually every nation.
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
Philosophes introduced the public to many scientific theories, most notably through the Encyclopédie and the popularization of Newtonianism by Voltaire and Émilie du Châtelet. Some historians have marked the 18th century as a drab period in the history of science. [42]
The 19th and 20th centuries witnessed a significant decline in classical education. During this period, classical education, which had dominated European and American schools and universities, faced challenges from various educational reforms that sought to modernize curricula and make education more accessible and practical for a broader ...
Dewey's educational theories were presented in My Pedagogic Creed (1897), The Primary-Education Fetich (1898), The School and Society (1900), The Child and the Curriculum (1902), Democracy and Education (1916), Schools of To-morrow Archived May 6, 2018, at the Wayback Machine (1915) with Evelyn Dewey, and Experience and Education (1938 ...
Humboldt's model was based on two ideas of the Enlightenment: the individual and the world citizen.Humboldt believed that the university (and education in general, as in the Prussian education system) should enable students to become autonomous individuals and world citizens by developing their own powers of reasoning in an environment of academic freedom.
The classical education movement has borrowed terms used in educational history to name three phases of education. "Primary education" teaches students how to learn. "Secondary education" then teaches a conceptual framework that can hold all human knowledge (history), fills in basic facts and practices of major fields of knowledge, and develops ...
He is further considered by many to be the "father of modern educational science" [4] His psychological theories pertain to education as they focus on the development of object teaching, that is, he felt that individuals best learned through experiences and through a direct manipulation and experience of objects. He further speculated that ...