Posted in Curriculum, History of Homeschooling, tagged Charlotte Mason, Constructivism, Constructivist, Curriculum Journal, Hilary Cooper, John Dewey, Parents' Education Union, Parents' Review, University of Cumbria on November 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Hilary Cooper, “Looking Backwards to Move Forwards: Charlotte Mason on History” in Curriculum Journal 23: 1 (2012), pp. 7-18.
Cooper, a member of the education faculty at the University of Cumbria, Carlisle, UK, here uses Charlotte Mason’s views of history education to critique trends in the British government’s approach to the issue. (more…)
Posted in Curriculum, History of Homeschooling, tagged A Beka, A Beka Book, Accelerated Christian Education, ACE, Adam Laats, Arlin Horton, Beka Horton, Binghamton Uinversity, Bloom's Taxonomy, Bob Jones, Bob Jones Complete, Bob Jones University, Christian Day Schools, Confucius, History of Education Quarterly, John Dewey, Max Rafferty, new math, phonics, progressivism, Rudolph Flesch, Scopes Trial, Sputnik, Walter G. Fremont, whole language on March 1, 2010 | 8 Comments »
This post reviews Adam Laats, “Forging a Fundamentalist ‘One Best System’: Struggles over Curriculum and Educational Philosophy for Christian Day Schools, 1970-1989″ in History of Education Quarterly 50, no 1 (February 2010): 55-83. [Read the first page here]
Laats, a professor at the Binghamton University School of Education and respected colleague, here continues a line of research he’s been working on for a good while. Laats has published several articles about the history of Evangelical Protestants and education, and he has a book coming out soon
The article under review here is a wonderful study of the three most widely used curricula in the world of conservative Protestant schooling from the 1970s to the present, both among Christian day schools and among homeschoolers. Laats does not stress the homeschooling application, but his history of these curricula applies just as well to homeschoolers as to the Christian day schools for which they were first developed.
Posted in History of Homeschooling, tagged A Nation at Risk, Adam Smith, Agrarianism, Bowling Alone, Buffalo State College, Communitarianism, Francois Quesnay, George S. Counts, Gerrard Winstanley, Harold Rugg, Henry George, James Harrington, John Dewey, John Goodlad, John Locke, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, laissez faire, Lester Frank Ward, Montesquieu, No Child Left Behind, Paul Theobald, Robert Putnam, Roman Catholicism, Social Darwinism, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, Woods-Beals Chair of Urban and Rural Education on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Paul Theobald, Education Now: How Rethinking America’s Past Can Change Its Future
Theobald, Woods-Beals Chair of Urban and Rural Education at Buffalo State College and author of two other books on rural education and community revival, here presents a wide-ranging revisionist account of the economic, political, and educational history of Europe and the United States in an effort to suggest reforms that begin in schools and ultimately will transform the U.S. into a more populist and economically stable place. In this review I’ll summarize his main argument and then explain what it means for homeschooling. (more…)
My book Homeschool: An American History
is the first scholarly book-length treatment of its theme. It is available for purchase
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