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Hornbook
www.nd.edu.comThe hornbook was used by school children for several centuries, starting in the Mid-15th century, in Europe and America. The hornbook consisted of a wooden paddle with lessons tacked on and covered by a piece of transparent horn.
The lessons consisted of different combinations of the following things: the alphabet, vowel and consonant combinations, the Lord's Prayer, a form of a cross, and a praise of the Trinity. These were hand written on a piece of parchment, then tacked to the wooden paddl -
Elementry education
In the 1600's some girls attended elementry instruction, but formal colonial education was mainly for boys. In the (middle and upper clases) Both boys and girls got schooled at home, they learned the four R's Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and religon. -
John Locke (1602-1704)
John Locke believed that we aquire knowledge of world through our senses. Pioneer of the inductive, or scientific method. He recomended utilitarian and practical learning in a slow gradual process. -
Dame schools
A dame school was where a housewife ofered to take in children who she would teach some reading, writing and basic prayer as well as religous beliefs. Girls would also learn some basic house hold skills, such as cooking and sewing, Dame schools provided all the education some children especially girls ever recieved. -
New England town and District schools.
The puritans believed that it was important that everyone beable to read and interpret the bibles teachings. Early as 1642 Massachutts passed a law requring parents to educate their children.This law was later strengthend in 1647 by Old Deluder Satan Act. -
Town Schools
Every town with fifty or more families was obligated to pay a man to teach reading and writing. If the familes would not or could not educate their Children the government had to take on that responsibity -
District school
Soon distric schools were developed. Laws made attendance mandatory but were not strongly enfourced. Some towns allowed girls to use the school building between 5:00 am and 7:00 am while the boys were not there. But not untill the american revolution were girls even allowed in elementry schools. Students entered school at about the age of 6 or 7 and only stayed about three to four years. They learned their ABC's, numbers, and the Lord's prayer. -
common school
Common schools provided education for the average person. Then came universal education which was schooling for everyone. -
Secular Education
In early colonial times the purpose of education was for religous purposes. begining in the 1700 and continuing untill the 1900s education be came greatly secular, concerned with producing socially responsible citzens. As for religous studdys in todays world of education is mostly only in priate schools. -
Local Control
Local control orignated in New England during the colonial period. The concept of local control of schools spread during the nineteenth century.
The Federal Government didnt realy care about education, untill about mid-twentieth century. The State Governments took over the role of educational authorities and granted power to local school boards. -
Universal Education
Education for all children has been a devoloping theme for all children. In the colonial period only few students could get an education, mainly white males. During the nineteenth and twentieth century all children had equal rights to education; including Girls,minorites, immigrants, and people with disabilites. They got access to attend both elementry and secondary schools. -
Public Education
In the colonial period education was mostly in private schools and only offered to the middle and upper class. By the twentieth century public schools was supported as well as compulsory education. -
Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852)
Friedrich Froebel was a German who introduced Kindergarten, or "Childs Garden" the goal was to get students ready for the childs self-development, self-activity, and socialization. Believed that the teachers should be a model of human dignity and cultural values. Songs, stories,and games stimulated the child's imagination and transmited the culture. -
Northwest Ordinances
In the ordance of 1787, congress reaffired that "religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schoola and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. -
high school (secondary school)
provided public secondary schooling; combined functions of latin grammar schools and academies. (college preperation and preporation for life and buisness) -
Kindergarten (Child's garden)
In 1837 Friedrich Froebel of germany developed the first kindergarten! One of the most far-reaching experiments was the Kindergarten where plesant children's activities, such as songs and were used to lay a foundation before formal education began, -
Academies
Private secondary schools designedto prepare young people for buisness and life; emphasized a practical curriculm, but gradually shifted back to college preperation. -
Maria Montssori (1870-1952)
Maria Montssori was an Italian who established preschools run on the principle of allowing children freedom within a carefully designed enviornment curriculum focused on three types of experiences: Practical, sensory,and formal studies. She also created learning materials designed to develop sensory and muscular coordination. Required cobsiderable training of teachers to implement the standard curriclum. -
Changing ideas of the basics
The goal of colonial education were literacy and clasical learning. In the nineteenth century education was focoused on practical skills for pragmatic, democratic society were the aims of the nineteenth-century schools. In the tewntieth century technical and scientific literacy became the new basics, We live in what is described as the computer and space- age. -
Junior High schools (middle schools)
Middle schools first began in Californa and are now everywhere. Designed to provde students in grades 7- 9 with better preperation for high school. -
Comprehensive education
In the begining comprehensive education was for the students to learn the basics: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. As times changed so did the basics of education. Begining in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries students had to be educated for work. In result he Comprehensive public high school which is good for training for trades and preperation for college.
