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Socrates is recognized for inventing the teaching practice of pedagogy, wherein a teacher questions a student in a manner that draws out the correct response. http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/People/Socrates/
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De eruditione filiorum nobilium (On the Education of Noble Girls), was the first medieval educational text to both systematically present a comprehensive method of instruction for lay children and to included a section devoted to girls. https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/15882
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On April 23, 1635, the first public school in what would become the United States was established in Boston, Massachusetts. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/apr23/first-public-school-america/
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Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841) is known today mainly as a founding figure of modern psychology and educational theory. Herbart suggested five steps as crucial components. Specifically, these five steps include: preparation, presentation, association, generalization, and application. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/johann-herbart/
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The term "adult education" was coined in England in 1810 in reference to promotion of adult literacy. Across the Atlantic, adult education emerged in the nineteenth century as a means to enculturate recently arrived immigrants in the United States and Canada. https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/adult-education-earlier
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The German gymnasium teacher Alexander Kapp (1800-1869) was to all appearances the first one to use the "andragogy concept" as a term for "adult learning." https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1169580
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Howard Gardner surmised that humans have several different ways of processing information, and these ways are relatively independent of one another. Many teachers, school administrators, and special educators have been inspired by Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences as it has allowed for the idea that there is more than one way to define a person's intellect. https://howardgardner.com/
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In 1972, the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) was established by J. Roby Kidd, with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. http://icae.global/
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Howard Gardner, developmental psychologist from Harvard University, gained prominence in the education sector for his Multiple Intelligences Theory. He named seven of these intelligences in 1983. These are Linguistic, Logical and Mathematical, Visual and Spatial, Body and Kinesthetic, Musical and Rhythmic, Intrapersonal, and Interpersonal. https://www.verywellmind.com/gardners-theory-of-multiple-intelligences-2795161
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The Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE presented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation is a global competition challenging teams to develop mobile applications for existing smart devices that result in the greatest increase in literacy skills among participating adult learners in just 12 months. https://www.xprize.org/prizes/adult-literacy
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/adult-literacy/articles/two-teams-tie-for-grand-prize
