http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-05-06T17:09:49+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=adrianna_kezar&rev=1750081549&do=diff Adrianna Kezar Biography Adrianna Kezar is a multidisciplinary higher education educational scholar whose work consistently highlights the creation of inclusive and fair educational institutions, especially in higher education. Her scholarly work is influenced by her multidisciplinary thinking and previous professional experience in student affairs administration. Through her work, Dr. Kezar has expanded our understanding of educational issues ranging from STEM reform to organizational change.… text/html 2026-04-20T07:49:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=tony_wagner&rev=1776671380&do=diff Tony Wagner (1948–) Biography Tony Wagner's path to becoming one of the most influential voices in contemporary American education reform began with rejection of the very institution he would later dedicate his career to transforming. Growing up in the political ferment of the 1960s, he dropped out of high school, returned, then dropped out of college twice — experiences that gave him an early, personal, and unsparing understanding of what it feels like when schooling fails to engage the intel… text/html 2026-04-18T19:49:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=pasi_sahlberg&rev=1776541786&do=diff Pasi Sahlberg (1959– ) Biography Pasi Sahlberg was born in approximately 1959 in rural Finland, in the small village of Vuohtomäki, where his father served as the head of the local school — an upbringing that gave him an early and intimate acquaintance with the realities of rural education and the ethos of teaching as a vocation of public service. He pursued undergraduate studies in mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Turku, but his path into teacher education was not straigh… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=anna_julia_haywood_cooper&rev=1750081549&do=diff Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964) Biography Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was a prominent African American educator, feminist, and social activist. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to an enslaved mother, she faced early hardships but was encouraged by her mother to pursue education. Cooper dedicated her life to advancing educational opportunities for Black women and girls, emphasizing the importance of literacy and intellectual progress. She served as a teacher and principal at the M Street Sc… text/html 2026-04-18T14:21:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=geoffrey_canada&rev=1776522109&do=diff Geoffrey Canada (b. 1952) Biography Geoffrey Canada is an American educator, social entrepreneur, author, and community leader whose creation of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) reimagined what a school and its surrounding community could be for children living in concentrated poverty. Born on January 13, 1952, Canada grew up in the South Bronx of New York City with his single mother and three siblings. Violence was endemic to his neighborhood, and fighting was prioritized over education; he w… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=alma_harris&rev=1750081549&do=diff Alma Harris Biography Alma Harris taught at Warwick, University College London, Malaya, Bath, and Swansea. Her research and writing on educational leadership, policy, and school reform are internationally renowned. She was a Welsh Government Senior Policy Adviser from 2009 to 2012, helping with system-wide transformation. She co-led the national Professional Learning Communities (PLC) initiative and developed and implemented a master's degree for all newly trained Welsh teachers. In January 20… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=bell_hooks&rev=1750081549&do=diff Bell Hooks Biography Bell Hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is a renowned scholar, feminist theorist, and social activist. She is recognized as one of the pioneers of Black feminist thinking, with a focus on issues of race, gender, class, and their intersections. hooks' work delves into themes of resistance, community, education, love, and relationships, emphasizing the importance of dismantling structures of oppression. Her educational background includes a Bachelor o… text/html 2026-04-20T07:58:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=dan_rothstein&rev=1776671893&do=diff Dan Rothstein Biography Dan Rothstein is an American educator, community organiser, and researcher whose career has been devoted to a single animating conviction: that the ability to ask one's own questions is the most democratically consequential and most consistently neglected skill that education can cultivate. He earned a doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and on completing his degree travelled to Israel on a Fulbright Scholarship, where he worked in youth and community… text/html 2026-04-19T08:24:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=richard_elmore&rev=1776587083&do=diff Richard Elmore (1945–2021) Biography Richard Elmore was one of the most consequential scholars of educational leadership and school improvement of his generation, whose career combined serious academic inquiry with deep, sustained engagement in the practical work of schools. He served as the Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1990 until his death on 9 February 2021, and in that role he shaped the thinking of hundreds of aspiring ed… text/html 2025-06-20T00:53:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=carol_dweck&rev=1750380822&do=diff Carol Dweck Biography Carol Dweck is a renowned educational psychologist whose work has significantly advanced understanding of motivation, intelligence, and personality. She pursued her undergraduate degree in psychology at Barnard College and earned her graduate studies at Yale University, where she developed her foundational research in cognitive psychology and learning theory. Mentored by notable scholars such as Dr. Allan Wagner and Dr. Robert Rescorla, she deepened her expertise in cogni… text/html 2025-08-08T07:18:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=david_kolb&rev=1754637532&do=diff David Kolb (1939-) Biography David Allen Kolb was born on December 12, 1939, in Moline, Illinois, in what he described as a “small midwestern farm town.” Partly due to the influence of his mother, Kolb developed an interest in learning and ideas from an early age, standing out among his peers who did not seem very interested in education at the time. His first encounter with experiential learning occurred in the 6th grade when his teacher organized a United Nations forum simulation where stude… text/html 2026-04-21T07:25:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=etienne_wenger&rev=1776756328&do=diff Etienne Wenger (1952-) Biography Etienne Wenger is a Swiss-born educational theorist and organizational consultant whose development of the “communities of practice” concept has become one of the most widely adopted frameworks for understanding adult, professional, and situated learning across education, business, and public policy. Growing up in Switzerland, where the distant Alps fostered a sense of wonder and a desire to travel, Wenger began his career as a French teacher abroad before shif… text/html 2026-04-20T03:01:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=eugenio_maria_de_hostos_y_de_bonilla&rev=1776654069&do=diff Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla (1839–1903) Biography Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla was a nineteenth-century Puerto Rican philosopher, sociologist, educator, and pan-Caribbean activist whose legacy continues to inform educational practice, policy, and ontology across Latíno Ameríca and beyond. Born on January 11, 1839, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico — then under Spanish colonial rule — de Hostos was sent at ages 12–13 to Spain for schooling, attending the Institute of Secondary Education… text/html 2026-04-18T14:39:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=henry_giroux&rev=1776523170&do=diff Henry Giroux (1943-) Biography Henry A. Giroux is a Canadian-American cultural critic, public intellectual, and educational theorist whose synthesis of critical theory, cultural studies, sociology of education, and postmodernism has made him one of the most widely read and contested figures in the global field of critical pedagogy. 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His father, a Confucian teacher of modest means who had declined to serve the colonial administration, instilled in his son an early mastery of the classical canon and a deep convicti… text/html 2026-04-19T08:38:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=wendy_kopp&rev=1776587904&do=diff Wendy Kopp (1967–) Biography Wendy Kopp was born in 1967 in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in a context of relative privilege that would later sharpen her awareness of educational inequality. She studied at Princeton University, where in 1989 she wrote her senior thesis proposing the creation of a national teacher corps — a domestic Peace Corps for education — as the mechanism for addressing the persistent gap in educational opportunity between wealthy and low-income communities in the United Stat… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=cami_anderson&rev=1750081549&do=diff Cami Anderson Biography Cami Anderson is an influential figure in the field of education, known for her dedication to improving outcomes for marginalized and at-risk students. Born in Los Angeles in 1971, Anderson grew up in a multiracial household as one of 12 children, with parents who were activists and adopted nine children with special needs. This upbringing instilled in her a passion for addressing inequities in the education system. text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=carl_rogers&rev=1750081549&do=diff Carl Rogers (1902–1987) Biography Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was an influential American psychologist and one of the founders of humanistic psychology. He is best known for his development of client-centered therapy, now known as person-centered therapy, which revolutionized the field of psychotherapy. 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Born on July 1, 1938, in Houston, Texas, the third of eight children of Anna and Walter Silvers — small-business owners in the city's Heights neighborhood — Ravitch attended the Houston public schools and graduated as one of four valedictori… text/html 2026-04-20T02:56:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=edward_de_bono&rev=1776653792&do=diff Edward de Bono (1933–2021) Biography Edward de Bono was a Maltese physician, psychologist, and prolific author whose work over more than five decades made “thinking” a teachable subject in its own right and introduced two of the most widely used vocabularies in twentieth-century cognitive practice: *lateral thinking* and *parallel thinking*. Born in Malta in 1933, de Bono came from a family in which, by his own account, two strands converged: a strong medical orientation from his father, a pro… text/html 2026-04-20T02:58:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=elliot_eisner&rev=1776653905&do=diff Elliot Eisner (1933–2014) Biography Elliot Wayne Eisner was an American painter, art educator, and educational theorist whose career at Stanford University made him the foremost advocate for the cognitive, curricular, and methodological importance of the arts in education. Born in Chicago in 1933 to a Jewish American family that saw education as a motivating force for change, Eisner traced his intellectual life to his mother's decision, when he was eight, to enroll him in Saturday art classes … text/html 2026-04-18T14:45:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=friedrich_froebel&rev=1776523503&do=diff Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852) Biography Friedrich Froebel was a German pedagogue, philosopher of education, and institutional innovator whose creation of kindergarten — both the concept and the name — made him one of the chief architects of modern early childhood education. Born in 1782 in Thuringia, Germany, Froebel lost his mother at nine months of age, grew up under the care of a Lutheran pastor father, and spent much of his childhood walking through forests and fields that instilled in him… text/html 2026-04-18T14:26:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=georg_wilhelm_friedrich_hegel&rev=1776522372&do=diff Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) Biography Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher of the idealist tradition whose systematic thinking — encompassing logic, metaphysics, the philosophy of history, aesthetics, and ethics — made him one of the most influential and contested thinkers of the nineteenth century. Born in 1770 in Stuttgart in the Duchy of Württemberg, Hegel's mother was well educated and taught him Latin from an early age; his love of reading was further ignit… text/html 2026-04-20T07:53:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=howard_gardner&rev=1776671608&do=diff Howard Gardner (1943–) Biography Howard Earl Gardner was born on 11 July 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Ralph Gardner and Hilde Weilheimer, Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi Germany in 1938 after Kristallnacht, leaving behind a prosperous family business and a comfortable bourgeois life — an origin that gave their son an early and intimate acquaintance with the fragility of civilised values and the importance of moral courage that would run, decades later, through his work on ethic… text/html 2026-04-19T08:26:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=janusz_korczak&rev=1776587171&do=diff Janusz Korczak (1878–1942) Biography Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, born in Warsaw into a Jewish family of Polish assimilation and raised to love both literature and medicine — two vocations he spent his life pursuing simultaneously rather than choosing between. After his father's mental illness and early death left the family in financial difficulty, the young Goldszmit began writing stories, poems, and plays, and he published his first book under his pen name while stil… text/html 2026-04-19T08:40:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=ken_robinson&rev=1776588040&do=diff Sir Ken Robinson (1950–2020) Biography Ken Robinson was born on 4 March 1950 in Liverpool, the sixth of seven children in a working-class family, and his early life was marked by an experience that would inform his educational philosophy at the deepest level: at the age of four he contracted polio, an illness that also left his father quadriplegic, and he attended a school for physically disabled children where he first encountered teachers who understood that children's potential could not be… text/html 2026-04-18T19:10:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=lawrence_arthur_cremin&rev=1776539409&do=diff Lawrence A. Cremin (1925–1990) Biography Lawrence Arthur Cremin was born on 31 October 1925 in New York City, the son of Arthur T. Cremin and Theresa Borowick Cremin, who together founded the New York Schools of Music — an institution in which the young Lawrence worked in a variety of capacities, distributing advertisements, selling instruments, conducting the orchestra, and entertaining audiences with comic routines when performances were delayed. This immersion in an educational enterprise s… text/html 2026-04-18T19:20:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=lee_s._shulman&rev=1776540020&do=diff Lee S. Shulman (1938– ) Biography Lee S. Shulman was born in 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jewish immigrant parents who operated a family delicatessen — an early and informal school in social navigation, customer relations, and the interpretation of human character. He attended an Orthodox Jewish day school in which Talmudic study in the mornings was paired with secular subjects in the afternoons, an experience that cultivated both the habits of close textual analysis and the convictio… text/html 2026-04-18T14:30:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=nikolai_frederik_severin_grundtvig&rev=1776522609&do=diff Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783–1872) Biography Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig — historian, pastor, poet, politician, educational philosopher, and what many Danes call “the spiritual father of the nation” — was born on September 8, 1783, in Udby, in southern Zealand, to a Lutheran minister father and a mother from a long line of clergymen. 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He grew up in a household steeped in Jewish intellectual culture and the political debates of the interwar period, and was exposed from childhood to his father's scholarly work on Hebrew grammar — an influence he would later acknowledge as formative for hi… text/html 2026-04-19T08:17:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=paulo_freire&rev=1776586646&do=diff Paulo Freire (1921–1997) Biography Paulo Freire was born in Recife, Pernambuco, in northeast Brazil, and his childhood experience of poverty shaped every aspect of his intellectual project. The Great Depression of the 1930s impoverished his middle-class family, forcing him to understand hunger not as abstraction but as a condition that made learning impossible; he later wrote that his academic work was never separate from that memory. He studied law and philosophy at the University of Recife, … text/html 2026-04-14T06:08:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=robert_e._slavin&rev=1776146922&do=diff Robert E. Slavin (1950–2021) Biography Robert E. Slavin — known to colleagues as Bob — was an American educational researcher whose career centered on bringing the standards of the experimental sciences into classroom practice and school reform. He studied psychology at Reed College in Oregon, where Professor Carol Creedon mentored his undergraduate thesis and encouraged him toward a career in education, and he went on to earn a doctorate in social relations from Johns Hopkins University in 19… text/html 2026-04-19T08:37:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=thucydides&rev=1776587825&do=diff Thucydides (460 – 400 BCE) Biography Thucydides was born in Athens around 460 BCE into a wealthy aristocratic family with connections to Thrace, and he received the classical Athenian education that divided intellectual formation into paideia mousike text/html 2026-04-19T08:42:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=yong_zhao&rev=1776588152&do=diff Yong Zhao (1976-) Biography Yong Zhao grew up in rural western China, an experience that gave him both an intimate understanding of educational disadvantage and a formative encounter with the productive exceptions that allowed some students, himself included, to pursue personalised learning pathways despite the standardising pressures of a centrally directed system. The ability to navigate those exceptions — to find spaces of self-direction within a heavily prescribed curriculum — became a per… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=wiki:dokuwiki&rev=1750081549&do=diff DokuWiki wiki:dokuwiki DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable syntax. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator's favorite. Built in