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Category Archives: History
FORGING A FUNDAMENTALIST ‘ONE BEST SYSTEM’: The History of ACE, ABeka, and Bob Jones Complete
Record: 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] Summary: Laats, a professor … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, History, Pedagogy
Tagged A Beka, Accelerated Christian Education, ACE, Adam Laats, Arlin Horton, Beka Horton, Binghamton University, BJU, Bloom's Taxonomy, Bob Jones Complete, Bob Jones University, History of Education Quarterly, John Dewey, Max Rafferty, new math, original sin, Pensacola Christian Schools, phonics, progressivism, Rudolph Flesch, sex education, Sputnik, whole language
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SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGE: A Social Theory of Homeschooling
Record: Patricia M. Greenfield, “Linking Social Change and Developmental Change: Shifting Pathways of Human Development” in Developmental Psychology 45, no. 2 (March 2009): 401-418 Summary: Greenfield is a luminary in the field of psychocultural research, the comparative study of psychology … Continue reading
Posted in History, Parental Motivation, Socialization
Tagged CDMCLA, Chidren's Digital Media Center, Creative Class, David Riesman, Developmental Psychology, Ferdinand Tonnies, folk societies, gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, Inner Directed, Patricia Greenfield, Robert Redfield, Tradition Directed, urban societies
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HOMESCHOOLING AND RACISM
Record: Tal Levy, “Homeschooling and Racism” in Journal of Black Studies (November 2007): 1-19. (Available fulltext here). Summary: Levy calls his approach “Diffusion Research,” a methodology that looks at how a reform spreads and tries to ascertain why certain locations adopt … Continue reading
Posted in History, Legal, Race/Ethnicity
Tagged Casey Patrick Cochran, Georgia, Journal of Black Studies, Julian Bond, Tal Levy
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