http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-15T22:22:02+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-04-14T17:29:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=deborah_meier&rev=1776187746&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 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=alexander_sutherland_neill&rev=1750081549&do=diff Alexander Sutherland Neill (1883-1973) Biography A. S. Neill (1883-1973) was a Scottish educator and author known for his radical ideas on children's freedom and education. He founded the progressive and democratic school, Summerhill, where children were given the freedom to choose their activities and learning paths. Neill believed in providing a nurturing and emotionally healthy environment for children, emphasizing the importance of love and respect in their development. Influenced by think… text/html 2026-04-15T08:08:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=elliot_eisner&rev=1776240491&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 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 2026-04-15T07:57:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=edward_de_bono&rev=1776239851&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 2026-04-15T08:17:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=etienne_wenger&rev=1776241046&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 2026-04-15T08:29:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=francis_bacon&rev=1776241789&do=diff Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Biography Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Albans, was an English philosopher, statesman, lawyer, and essayist whose Great Instauration (1620) and Novum Organum (1620) laid the conceptual foundations of the modern scientific method and made him, in the phrase of his biographers, a