benevolence — shaped her outlook from childhood. She studied at the Philadelphia Normal School and beg... ntion to students who struggled in the classroom. She investigated the causes of academic difficulty in... g impairments, neurological differences, and what she called "mental deficiency" — and modified her lea... in some form. Promoted rapidly within the system, she eventually became the principal of School Number
ople before the Civil War. At nineteen months old she contracted an acute illness — never conclusively ... eft her both deaf and blind. For nearly six years she lived in a state of profound isolation, unable to... ture Keller attributed to Sullivan's water lesson she later applied to her political life: reading Marx... d socialist, suffragist, and American ambassador; she supported the Industrial Workers of the World, ca
piritual awakening at the age of forty-two — when she described "a burning light of tremendous brightne... understanding of scripture and the cosmos — that she received papal sanction to make her visions publi... ps, queens, and abbots across the Catholic world, she built and founded her own monastery at Rupertsber... a sister house at Eibingen. Between 1158 and 1171 she undertook at least four preaching tours, unusual
ess to music, theatre, and the arts — experiences she has credited with shaping her conviction that the... re indispensable to a fully developed human life. She studied at New York University and then Harvard U... fore settling at the University of Chicago, where she is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor o... e development economics of Amartya Sen, with whom she developed the capabilities approach in the early
ist philosopher Damascius would later record that she had "greater genius than her father"; the ecclesi... ting some twenty-four years after her death, that she came to "far surpass all the philosophers of her ... exandria — an appointment remarkable both because she was a woman and because the government of Alexand... ria was by then Christian — and for fifteen years she led one of the ancient world's most prestigious a
capital city of New Zealand's North Island, where she would complete her initial teacher training at th... ion — from the University of New Zealand in 1946. She completed a master of arts degree in 1948, with a... oom realities that would define her work. In 1950 she travelled to the United States as a Fulbright sch... esota's Institute of Child Welfare, an experience she later described as a turning point in her underst
usehold committed to racial and economic justice. She attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, an... degree in history from the University of Chicago. She volunteered with CORE and the NAACP, marched acro... ocialists of America. With her husband Fred Meier she raised three children; once they were in school she became a substitute teacher in Chicago in the earl
essness urgently personal as well as theoretical. She worked successively as a lady's companion in Bath... l proprietor at Newington Green (1784–86) — where she encountered the Dissenting intellectual community... er entry into political controversy in 1790, when she wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Men — one of... fective education rather than natural incapacity. She travelled to Paris in 1792, witnessed the Revolut
After completing a bachelor's degree in English, she spent approximately fifteen years as a labor and ... cal movements during the Reagan era, an immersion she regarded not as a prelude to academic work but as... to political engagement but as a resource for it. She completed her MA and PhD in Educational Policy St... Philadelphia urban education research laboratory, she returned to the Midwest in 1994 to become an assi
n in Swiss academia were still a marked minority. She enrolled at the Institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G... he empirical foundations of genetic epistemology. She was appointed Professor of Developmental Psycholo... nces de l'Éducation. After Piaget's death in 1980 she continued to lead the Geneva laboratory, directin... portant respects revised the Piagetian framework. She held honorary doctorates from a dozen major unive
d a formative influence on her moral imagination. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881 a... gure in equal measure; during the First World War she co-chaired the Women's International League for P... 931 — the first American woman to be so honoured. She died on 21 May 1935 in Chicago, leaving a legacy ... d the reformer to inhabit the experience of those she sought to assist, to listen before prescribing, a
y childhood to prevent her from biting her nails, she showed extraordinary intellectual gifts from the ... tset, reportedly lamenting at the age of six that she had not been born a boy so that she could serve in the Great War. She entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1928 — one of a tiny number
but racially segregated school of 1,200 students. She left the segregated South to attend Wellesley Col... schools under the mentorship of Lawrence Cremin. She earned her PhD in history from Columbia Universit... ct assistant professor. From 1991 to January 1993 she served as Assistant Secretary in the Office of Ed... Lamar Alexander under President George H.W. Bush; she subsequently held the Brown Chair in Education St
at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has been a professor in the School of Education. ... tional research during the 1970s and 1980s, which she regarded as artificially decontextualised, ideolo... ve turned to ethnographic fieldwork: in the 1970s she spent extended periods in Liberia studying Vai an... life of a tailor's workshop. This research, which she later set against a parallel study of how America
n Raleigh, North Carolina, to an enslaved mother, she faced early hardships but was encouraged by her m... importance of literacy and intellectual progress. She served as a teacher and principal at the M Street School, where she implemented a rigorous curriculum and secured sch... ng discriminatory practices. Throughout her life, she was actively involved in various organizations an
