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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
any process, either formal or informal, that shapes the potential of a maturing organism. Informal education results from the constant effect of environment, and its strength in shaping values and habits can not be overestimated. Formal education is a conscious effort by human society to impart the skills and modes of thought considered essential for social functioning. Techniques of instruction often reflect the attitudes of society, i.e., authoritarian groups typically sponsor dogmatic methods, while democratic systems may emphasize freedom of thought. In ancient Greece education for freemen was a matter of studying Homer, mathematics, music, and gymnastics . Higher education was carried on by the Sophists and philosophers before the rise of the Academy and the philosophical schools. In medieval Western Europe, education was typically a charge of the church: the monastic schools and universities were the chief centers, and virtually all students took orders. Lay education consisted…
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From New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965
Immigrants entering the educational system are extraordinarily diverse, and their experiences resist facile generalizations. New immigrants add new threads of cultural, linguistic, and racial difference to the American tapestry of diversity. Some are the children of highly educated professional…
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From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
Both pedagogical theory and educational institutions underwent massive transformations during the Romantic era. An unprecedented number of educational treatises appeared in this period, while the educational reforms of the French Revolution focused European attention on the connections between…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
A concern with education has been inseparably linked with the development of sociology, especially in the French tradition. In defining sociology, Auguste Comte argued that there had been a historical progression in the advancement of all science from deploying religious and metaphysical conceptual…
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From Geography of the World
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Education is one of the most important ways of creating a better world, for it enables people to improve their own lives. Most children receive a primary education up to the age of 11, which gives them the basic skills of reading, writing, and mathematics. About half the world’s children also…
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From Key Concepts in Education
Here we are at the titular concept of the book, everyone has an opinion about it, newspapers never leave the topic alone, yet there is remarkably little agreement both about what it is and what it ought to be. In 1997, the then prime minister, Tony Blair, famously announced as his three main…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
any process, either formal or informal, that shapes the potential of a maturing organism. Informal education results from the constant effect of environment, and its strength in shaping values and habits can not be overestimated. Formal education is a conscious effort by human society to impart the…
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From Encyclopedia of South Africa
Formal education in South Africa goes back to the opening of the first school for slaves by the Dutch East India Company on April 17, 1658. In 1663, a second school was established for the children of colonists. The pattern of schooling that evolved over the next two centuries owed much to the…
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From The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
The very same Enlightenment principles which led colonists to establish a new nation based on the equality of man, individual rights, and limited government also informed American approaches to education. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pre- and post-Revolutionary America attended to…
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From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Glossary Human Capital A concept used to refer to the accumulation of skills, capacity, education, and attributes of labor within an individual’s body. For neoliberal economists in particular, education reduces to little more than investment in human…
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
American education developed from European intellectual traditions and institutions transplanted to the New World and modified by contact among different colonial groups and between new settlers and indigenous peoples. Of the European groups that settled in North America, the English majority had…
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