http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-04-19T02:37:59+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-04-18T19:21:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=loris_malaguzzi&rev=1776540069&do=diff Loris Malaguzzi (1920–1994) Biography Loris Malaguzzi was born on 23 February 1920 in Correggio, a small city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and moved with his family to the city of Reggio Emilia at the age of three, the place where he would live and work for the rest of his life. He trained as an elementary school teacher and, following the liberation of Italy from fascist rule at the end of the Second World War, encountered the ideas of John Dewey — whose writings had been b… 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 2026-04-15T08:04:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=edward_said&rev=1776240253&do=diff Edward Said (1935–2003) Biography Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian-American literary theorist, public intellectual, and political advocate whose work reshaped the humanities in the late twentieth century and whose writings on culture, power, and education remain foundational to contemporary thought. Born in 1935 into a well-off family that moved between Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon, Said grew up under British colonial schooling in which pupils studied far more about England and its poetry … 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 2026-04-18T15:02:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=horace_mann&rev=1776524554&do=diff Horace Mann (1796–1859) Biography Horace Mann was born in 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts, during a decade when manufacturing and urban diversification had begun to transform New England, and when sectarian rivalries and political discourse constituted the grammar of everyday life. Raised in a family that endowed him with a love of learning and a reverence for the written word, Mann underwent a decisive text/html 2026-04-18T15:07:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=hypatia_of_alexandria&rev=1776524879&do=diff Hypatia of Alexandria (355–415 CE) Biography Hypatia was born in Alexandria, Egypt, probably around 355–375 CE, into the household of Theon — a famed mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher whom the tenth-century Suda Lexicon identifies as the last known teacher and member of the Museum of Alexandria, the great institution that housed the Library of Alexandria and served as the intellectual hub of the ancient Mediterranean world. The Museum was akin to a medieval university in its devotion … 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 2026-04-18T15:16:33+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 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 2026-04-18T19:20:20+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 2026-04-18T19:38:56+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 2026-04-18T19:39:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=michael_pressley&rev=1776541197&do=diff Michael Pressley (1951–2006) Biography Michael Pressley was born in 1951 and dedicated his professional life to bridging cognitive-developmental science and educational practice in the elementary classroom. As an undergraduate at Northwestern University, where he majored in psychology, he completed a thesis investigating the memory strategies used by elementary school students — an early indicator of the research trajectory that would define his career. Influenced by Benton Underwood and Donal… text/html 2026-04-18T19:56:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=pauline_lipman&rev=1776542191&do=diff Pauline Lipman (1944-) Biography Pauline Lipman's formation as an educational thinker began not in the academy but in the streets and workplaces of late-twentieth-century American political life. After completing a bachelor's degree in English, she spent approximately fifteen years as a labor and community activist, teacher, and participant in communist political movements during the Reagan era, an immersion she regarded not as a prelude to academic work but as its essential foundation. It was… 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…