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A Network Framework of Cultural History
The emergent processes driving cultural history are a product of complex interactions among large numbers of individuals, determined by difficult-to-quantify historical conditions. To characterize these processes, we have reconstructed aggregate intellectual mobility over two millennia through the birth and death … Continue reading
History, Culture and Cognition – A dynamic model of Social Memory
The term social memory refers to the dynamic interplay between history, culture and cognition. At the level of the individual, three sources of knowledge: history, collective memory and individual experience combine to create a subjective view of historical reality, a … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Culture, History, Social memory
Tagged cognition, culture, history, social memory
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Zygmunt Bauman’s Warning From History
But we cannot simply memorialize without asking difficult and searching questions about the contemporary moment. Are there, for instance, aspects of contemporary global society that make it possible to think and act in ways that render specific populations disposable? Such … Continue reading
Posted in History, Human rights, Violence
Tagged history, human rights, violence
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A History of the World in 100 objects
A 100 part series by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, exploring world history from two million years ago to the present. Discover the 100 objects featured in the Radio 4 series; listen to the programmes online and download … Continue reading
Class Rules: Utopia On Hold
History is written by the victors. They define what counts as history, what is remembered and what is forgotten, what is important and what is not and, most crucially, what is usable for informing the relationship of the present with … Continue reading
A Brief History of Education
When we see that children everywhere are required by law to go to school, that almost all schools are structured in the same way, and that our society goes to a great deal of trouble and expense to provide such … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History, Homeschooling, Schooling, Schools
Tagged education, history, homeschooling, schooling, schools
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A People’s History of the United States – History from below
Howard Zinn, an active participant in the Civil Rights movement, his best-selling A People’s History of the United States spawned a new field of historical study: People’s Histories. This approach countered the traditional triumphalist examination of “history as written by … Continue reading
Want to Change the World? Study Deep History
Read Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. We’ve all heard this adage and many among us take to heart the wisdom of looking backward as a vital practice for understanding the future. We must understand … Continue reading
Posted in Change methods, Complexity, Historical change, Human development
Tagged change, complexity, historical change, history, human history
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Business as usual: the roots of the global financial meltdown
Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Crises, Financial, Marx
Tagged capitalism, crisis, history, marx
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Contrasting Piagetian versus Vygotskian Activity Theories of Learning and Development
This paper contrasts the notions of learning, teaching and development as these are conceptualized in two versions of constructivism: the socio-interactional one (in which Piagetian and Vygotskian insights are often merged) versus the one founded by Vygotsky and expanded in … Continue reading
Posted in Activity theory, Constructivism, Piaget, Vygotsky
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