International history and trends in education

Around the sixties and the seventies there was a period of social rebellion, these caused an economic crisis. These rebellions and crises produced an educational crisis because a lot of teachers were disappointed with the changes that the governments were doing. Some of the aims of deschooling are: freedom of humans in society, let all people be able to get education, share the knowledge, get economic and legal changes and adapt the education for the new generation.  The movement have the same contents than traditional school, they are more personalized and it have more items and environments and the kid have the control of their own knowledge.  Technological deschooling theories was the first deschooling movement. Historicist method is not as radical as the first one. Global alternatives implies the culturalization and the formation of the public institution. There are some important author of this movement like John Holst, Ivan Illich, Paul Goodman, Everett Reimer, Mars...

The New School was powered by the interest originated in most populations, including famous figures, which promoted and helped the expansion of this movement. Lots of scientists and pedagogues joined it, and developed a wide variety of theories and studies to help. Philosophers and authors helped with the diffusion of this movement, because they are in charge of improving society and education is a big part of it.  This movement criticized the traditional school in order to seek an improvement in education and in the teaching-learning process. The educational contents wanted to highlight the freedom and autonomy of the child and present principles that are opposed to the traditional school. The methodologies use on the new school are precisely contrary to those of the traditional school. In this case, the mental health of the students is taken into account, adapting the curriculum to make it easier for them. All teaching is based on facts and experience, and on the formation of the...

  The Middle Age is a historical context of the Western civilization. It is divided into three stages: - Early middle ages: 5 th century to the middle of the 8 th century. - High middle ages: Second half of the 7 th century to the end of the 11 th century. - Low middle ages: 12 th century to the 15 th century. Objective of the Catholic school: spread the word of God and Christian values. It was based on the Bible and the Gospel. The Church was interested in evangelizing, Christianising, educating and guaranteeing the education of all human beings, regardless of their social class. Moral education was of great importance in monasteries. For Christianity, the innocence of children was a virtue. Instruction focused on a biblical-evangelical tradition. Military education was reserved for the nobles. Alcuino of York divided education into three stages. In universities the liberal arts were divided into two parts. The trivium consisted on learning grammatic, rhetoric ...

As a summary of my presentation about education in ancient civilizations: Regarding Chinese people, they are consideres economical, kind and also polite. Submission is considered the main pillar of education. For the Chinese, a great family is made up of a mother and a father and woman always has to obey man. From childhood they are brought up to obey and take care of their parents. The grandfather is usually the head of the family. Also, Tao is the moral rule. In relation to their education, teachers are competent and place great importance on knowledge and practice. During their first years at school, they learn reading and writing while in higher education they learn about ancient classics. As for women´s education, women are educated to be compliant and also to do house chores. In Chine, there is an educational referent, Confucius, China´s best philosopher who preached the importance of caring and maintaining family values. He considered that maintaining strong ties with the family...