Key periods in
educational Description
history Period
Primitive and Only in the sense of enculturation, or the act
early civilized of passing down culture, can the term
cultures "education" be used to describe prehistoric
cultures.
European The forerunners of the educational institutions
Renaissance and of humanism were the schools founded in the
Reformation free cities in the late 13th and early 14th
centuries, schools built to meet the needs of
the expanding urban population that was
beginning to have more economic importance
in society.
Revolutionary the creation of a system of mass adult
patterns of education, the spread of communist
education ideologies, the opening of universities and
other higher education institutions to the
working class, the expansion of vocational
training for those over the age of 17, and the
establishment of a system of preschool
education to aid in the emancipation of
women.
Global trends in Similarly, the subjects taught in schools
education broadened from the basics
of mathematics and language to include
sciences and the arts.
educ goals
Primitive education's goal is to help kids
learn how to be good members of their tribe
or band.
This practice persisted even after 313, when
the emperor Constantine, who had converted
to Christianity, stopped the persecution of
Christians and granted them the same rights
as other citizens. It appears that Christians
who wanted their children to have a good
education sent them to the secular schools.
The liberal-democratic and moderate
Socialist parties envisioned a public
common school for all students that was
governed locally and directly involved
society.
John Dewey thought that education should
refer to a child's overall growth. The
progressive education movement in the
United States was launched by Dewey's
groundbreaking educational views.
According to his thesis in The School and
Society
curriculum
Practical subjects are typically
absent from the introductory
"curriculum". Rather, it is made
up of a wide range of cultural
ideals, tribal religion, myths,
philosophies, histories, rituals,
and other knowledge.
According to ancient tradition,
the curriculum included a
"liberal arts" education that was
separated into the trivium and
the quadrivium. The three
subjects that made up the
trivium were logic, rhetoric, and
Latin grammar.
The main responsibility of
higher education was to offer
specialized vocational training
within the confines of economic
and manpower plans; strict
central control over student
programs was to be imposed;
and the evening and
correspondence system of
higher and secondary
specialized education was to run
concurrently with full-time
studies.
The child, science, and society
were the three issues that shaped
20th-century education. The so-
called progressive education
movements that supported
child-centered education,
scientific-realist education, and
social reconstruction established
the groundwork for this trifecta.