http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-05-06T14:01:51+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-04-20T01:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=deborah_meier&rev=1776648655&do=diff Deborah Meier (1931-) Biography Deborah Meier is an American educator, author, and school founder who has been a leading voice in U.S. educational reform for more than fifty years and the first K–12 teacher to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. Born on April 6, 1931, in New York City to Joseph and Pearl Willen — both politically active, with Joseph running the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and Pearl volunteering widely and running once for City Council — Meier was raised in a household co… 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 2026-04-19T08:40:40+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 2026-04-18T14:35:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=helen_keller&rev=1776522912&do=diff Helen Keller (1880–1968) Biography Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, into an aristocratic family that had enslaved people before the Civil War. At nineteen months old she contracted an acute illness — never conclusively diagnosed — that left her both deaf and blind. For nearly six years she lived in a state of profound isolation, unable to communicate beyond rudimentary gestures learned from those who cared for her. On the advice of Alexander Graham Bell, who… text/html 2026-04-18T15:16:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=isocrates&rev=1776525393&do=diff Isocrates (436–338 BCE) Biography Isocrates was born in 436 BCE into a wealthy Athenian family whose fortune allowed his father, a prosperous flute maker, to provide him with an exceptional education — including attendance at lectures by the leading intellectual figures of the day. Among his teachers, he is believed to have studied under Prodicus of Ceos, Tisias of Syracuse, Theramenes, Socrates, and most significantly Gorgias of Leontini, the Sicilian philosopher-orator regarded as one of the… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=chester_evans_finn&rev=1750081549&do=diff Chester E. Finn, Jr. Biography Chester E. Finn, Jr., has held various roles, including high school teacher, education professor, think-tank analyst, government employee, and president of the Fordham Foundation from 1997 to 2014. Finn has been influential in shaping discussions around standards-based reform, quality assessment, and school choice. text/html 2026-04-20T01:33:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=diane_ravitch&rev=1776648823&do=diff Diane Ravitch (b. 1938) Biography Diane Silvers Ravitch is an American historian of education, public intellectual, and former federal education official whose work has both chronicled and altered the course of American schooling for nearly half a century. 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 2026-04-20T01:41:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=ho_chi_minh&rev=1776649282&do=diff Hồ Chí Minh (1890–1969) Biography Hồ Chí Minh was born Nguyễn Sinh Cung on 19 May 1890 in Kim Liên village, Nam Đàn district, Nghệ An province — the same landscape of Confucian scholarship and anti-colonial resistance that had produced 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 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 2026-04-18T14:52:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=hildegard_von_bingen&rev=1776523941&do=diff Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) Biography Hildegard von Bingen was a Benedictine abbess, polymath, and visionary of the twelfth century whose astonishing body of work — spanning theology, medicine, natural science, music, poetry, art, theater, linguistics, ecology, and architecture — places her two centuries before the Renaissance men typically associated with polymathic achievement. Born around 1098 in Bermersheim, near Alzey in present-day Germany, the tenth child of noble parents, Hildegar… text/html 2026-04-18T15:10:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=immanuel_kant&rev=1776525025&do=diff Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) Biography Immanuel Kant was born on 22 April 1724 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) to Johann Georg and Anna Regina Kant, a devoutly pietist family whose faith would leave a permanent imprint on his moral philosophy. He received his early formation at the Collegium Fridericianum (1732–1740), a rigorous institution shaped by Lutheran pietism, before beginning university studies in Königsberg in 1740, where he embraced theology, natural sciences, physics, and math… text/html 2026-04-18T19:22:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=margaret_bancroft&rev=1776540155&do=diff Margaret Bancroft (1854–1912) Biography Margaret Bancroft was born on 28 June 1854 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Harvey and Rebecca Bancroft, a Quaker family of Welsh immigrant descent living in the Germantown section of the city. Her father operated a successful mercantile business, and the family's Quaker values — which placed particular weight on the spiritual equality of all persons and the obligation of practical benevolence — shaped her outlook from childhood. She studied at the Phil… 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 2026-04-19T08:28:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=sara_lawrence-lightfoot&rev=1776587310&do=diff Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1944–) Biography Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot was born in Nashville, Tennessee, into an intellectually distinguished family: her father, Charles Radford Lawrence II, was a sociologist, and her mother, Margaret Morgan Lawrence, was among the first African American women to complete a psychiatric residency in the United States. Growing up with two scholar-practitioners as parents gave Lawrence-Lightfoot an early formation in the idea that rigorous inquiry and deep human conce… 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 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=bettina_love&rev=1750081549&do=diff Bettina Love Biography Bettina L. Love is a renowned educator, author, and activist known for her work in promoting equity and justice in education, particularly in K-12 classrooms. She currently holds the position of the William F. Russell Professor at 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 2026-04-18T19:49:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=howard_zinn&rev=1776541764&do=diff Howard Zinn (1922–2010) Biography Howard Zinn was born on 24 August 1922 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Eddie Zinn, an Austrian Jewish immigrant who worked as a waiter and factory hand, and Jenny Zinn. He grew up in poverty in the Brooklyn and the Bronx tenements of the interwar years, a childhood shaped by the Great Depression, trade-union culture, and the visceral experience of economic precariousness. 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The Museum was akin to a medieval university in its devotion … text/html 2026-04-20T01:26:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=lev_vygotsky&rev=1776648415&do=diff Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) Biography Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was born on 17 November 1896 in Orsha, in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), the second of eight children in a prosperous and intellectually cultivated Jewish family. His father, Semyon Vygotsky, was a bank official, and the family moved to Gomel — a lively provincial city — when Lev was a year old; it was there that he spent his formative years, tutored at home by Solomon Ashpiz, a celebrated private teacher whose Socratic, dialogic m… text/html 2026-04-14T17:14:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=marcus_tullius_cicero&rev=1776186865&do=diff Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) Biography Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman lawyer, statesman, orator, and philosopher whose writings on rhetoric, law, and civic life have exerted a longer continuous influence on Western education than those of almost any other ancient figure. 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His father, a copper miner who rose to lease several foundries, was determined that Martin should study law, and enrolled him first at the Latin school in Mansfeld, then at schools in Magdeburg and Eisenach, and finally at the University of Erfurt, where Luther completed a master of arts … text/html 2026-04-18T19:38:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=matthew_arnold&rev=1776541136&do=diff Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) Biography Matthew Arnold was born on 24 December 1822 in Laleham, Surrey, the eldest son of Thomas Arnold — the formidable headmaster of Rugby School whose reforms of the English public boarding school became a model for Victorian secondary education — and Mary Penrose Arnold. He was educated at Winchester and then at Rugby School, where his father presided, before going up to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1844 and won the Newdigate Prize for poetry.… 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:welcome&rev=1750081549&do=diff Welcome to your new DokuWiki Congratulations, your wiki is now up and running. Here are a few more tips to get you started. Enjoy your work with DokuWiki, -- the developers Create your first pages Your wiki needs to have a start page. As long as it doesn't exist, this link will be red: