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The Enlightenment
The theory of progress and the move from irrational to rational and methodolical reasoning-included challenge of hierarchial power in the church -
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Industrial revolution
The start of empowerment? Increased demand for workers increasing the demand for basic education, henceforth, privilege of education previously preserved for ruling class was beginning to be available to all, emergence of mass communication making knowledge more open and accessible -
The First Steiner Waldorf school
The introduction of a revolutionary, progressive form of education whic h abolished assessment and formed a child-centred approach on play and learning -
Education Act 1944
A significant part of the enlightenment-'Education fo All', the start of equal opportunity? -
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the 'mobs' and 'rockers' of the 1960s
Start of synchronised social group activity as a counterculture to the 'cultural norm' -
Vygotsky
Introduced constructivism which links to the importance of democratic and interactive education -
Gramsci
Marxist notion of hegemony, presenc e of a 'high/dominant' culture of elites which is inter-related to non-elite cultures thought to be manifested in the 'mundane culture of common sense' and reinforce the dominant position of the ruling class -
Habermas
'Ideal Speech situation'-concept that teacher-pupil interaction should be dialectic -
Education Reform Act
Introduction of a national curriculum, abolishment of teacher autonomy and the start of controlling educational content -
Young
'Ideal Pedagogical Speech Situation'-building on the work of Habermas, a way of constructing interaction to be non-indoctrinative through evaluating and adapting appropriate assumptions -
Birth to three matters and EYFS
The introduction of statutory framework for the early years, a move from child-centred learning to target-based instruction?