http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-05-24T22:58:48+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=angela_duckworth&rev=1750081549&do=diff Angela Duckworth Biography Angela Duckworth has devoted her professional life to enabling and providing pupils with the tools they need to realize their own potential. After working for a while as a K–12 teacher, Duckworth started her career in management consulting. Later, she turned her attention to psychology, utilizing the scientific method to connect theory and practice in the disciplines of psychology and education. Her scholarly contributions to these two domains have been significant. … 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 2026-04-21T07:25:28+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 2026-04-20T07:53:28+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 2026-04-18T19:07:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=jane_addams&rev=1776539265&do=diff Jane Addams (1860–1935) Biography Jane Addams was born on 6 September 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, the daughter of John Huy Addams — a mill owner, state senator, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln — whose civic example proved a formative influence on her moral imagination. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881 and briefly attended the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia before ill health and a deepening sense of purposelessness led her to abandon medicine; a transformati… text/html 2026-04-18T19:39:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=michael_grahame_moore&rev=1776541170&do=diff Michael Grahame Moore (1938– ) Biography Michael Grahame Moore was born in 1938 and is Distinguished Professor of Education (Emeritus) at the Pennsylvania State University, where he taught from 1986 until his retirement in 2013. His path to becoming the founding theorist of contemporary distance education (DE) began not in North America but in East Africa, where he worked between 1963 and 1970, developing and teaching what is believed to be one of the first DE programmes in Africa — a correspo… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=wiki:syntax&rev=1750081549&do=diff Formatting Syntax DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing