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At a Bend in the Road: The meeting School
No full textEducational debates have proliferated for centuries around the good, the bad and the ugly in education. One debate rarely discussed in more traditional educational circles is the topic of Quaker schools. Yet, Quaker schools still exist in the United States-their presence a quiet one. Despite secularization of society, distortion of values and preoccupation with materialism threatening Quaker education today, students still flock to these schools throughout the USA. Students are drawn to these schools not because of Quaker religion but more because of an espousal to the philosophy of the Quaker schools: one of education of the whole person for the sake of building up the community of "others". Quaker education embodies global education; non-violence; and values. It is for these ideals that students come as well
Behind-the-Scenes Ally: The GEB, Southern Black High Schools, and Inter-War Curriculum Reform
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Beyond "Curriculum and Enrollments": MIT and the Expansion of the American Science Community, 1820-1880
No full textThis paper revisits a long-standing historiographical debate over the curriculum in early to mid nineteenth century American higher education. It addresses themes that have been largely overlooked by both traditional and recent scholarship, themes that include the expansion of the American scientific community, the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the educational reform efforts of William Barton Rogers, conceptual founder of MIT
Lengthening the Curious and Crooked Path: the Official Social Studies Curriculum in Arizona
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Mediaeval foundations of modern education: Thomas Aquinas\u27 theory of cognition
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Social Studies Curriculum Change and Students\u27 Knowledge of Government and Civics
No full textThis paper analyzes the impact of curriculum cbange with apparent changes in student knowledge of government and civics throughout the twentieth century. First, political scientist Richard Niemi\u27s studies of students\u27 responses on measures of government and civics knowledge are described. These measures spanned the time period from 1933 through 1998. Next, Niemi\u27s results are correlated to changes in the social studies curriculum as documented by Evans (2002), StaUones (2002) and others. Finally, conclusions are drawn regarding the impact of curriculum change on student knowledge
The History and Evolution of the English as a Second Language (ESL) Curriculum in Quebec
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Indonesian Islamic Schools’ Curriculum History: From Independence to the New Order
No full textThe main objective of this study is to examine the evolution of Islamic schools’ curriculum in Indonesia 1945 – 1990. Using the social constructionist perspective as an approach, this research is trying to see the significance of political and social changes to the development of Islamic schools’ curricula throughout the country’s history
The History of the First Clinical Health Curricula for Students Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
No full textDuring the federal educational reform movement of the late nineteen sixties, there began an effort to develop post-secondary curricula for students who are deaf and heard-at-hearing in careers not previously open to them