Education Team/Resources

The knowledge base for Education will include links to a variety of materials that are important for understanding where we are and where we might be going.

Resources

 * Recursos en espanol and Spanish Chat
 * Education Team/Education Bibliographies
 * Tutorials
 * Libraries
 * Journals
 * Education Team/Evaluation Studies
 * Educational Tools - links to other sites/tools on the Internet
 * Popular press
 * Book publishers
 * Organizations
 * Ministries of Education: Curricula, textbook standards, teacher training
 * Teacher training: Schools of Education, On-the-job training, continuing education
 * Education Team/Lesson Plan resources

Theories of Knowledge and Understanding

 * Epistemologies: How do we know, or do we?
 * Ontologies
 * Ethics
 * Psychology
 * Neurology

History of Educational Thought and Practice

 * Traditional cultures: rites of passage, formal and informal learning, ...
 * Ancient civilizations: Greece, China, India...
 * The Catholic Church: Dark Ages, Carolingian schools, teaching orders, the rise of the Universities, the Counter-Reformation
 * Other Christian theories: Lutheran, Calvinist, Quaker (Friends), Anabaptist...
 * Scientific study: William James, John Dewoy, Montessori, Gattegno, Piaget...
 * Computers in education: Omar Khayyam Moore (sic), Ken Iverson, Howard Peelle, Seymour Papert and Constructionism, Alan Kay

Studies of Educational Methods

 * Saul Rockman
 * Larry Cuban, Oversold and Underused
 * Tom Russell, No Significant Difference Phenomenon Web site and book
 * Richard Rorty

Theories of Education

 * Tradition
 * Plato
 * Aristotle
 * Dogma
 * Craft guilds: Apprentices, journeymen, and masters
 * Social control
 * Liberal education
 * Prussia
 * Dewey
 * Montessori
 * Piaget and Vygotsky
 * John Holt
 * Papert and Kay

Child Development

 * Physical development
 * Languages
 * Social development
 * Learning disabilities and talents
 * Understanding of the world

Subject matter

 * Agriculture
 * Hunting
 * Combat and command
 * Religion
 * Conflict and negotiation
 * Business, finance
 * Economics
 * Math
 * Science
 * Logic
 * Speaking
 * Physical sciences
 * Biology
 * Social sciences
 * History
 * Geography
 * Languages and literature
 * Art
 * Music

Educational Technology

 * Reading and writing, print, online
 * Lectures (originally dictation)
 * Film and video
 * Photographs
 * Sound recordings
 * Computers and software tools: programming languages, content creation, human language support, standards, Free/Open Source Software
 * Distance learning
 * Peer Editing Exchange