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Louisa Parsons Hopkins

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Index

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Pod Charter

This is a new page/page stub extension attempt. We are looking to build out information on Louisa Parsons Hopkins, the educator and activist and extend her Wikipedia page. Below are some starting questions for research, but we should find more as we go.

Why would I spend my time on obscure history?

This may seem like it is just historical research to build a page, but it's really much more. Follow the history and you end up at questions of how educational change happens, what ideas are new, how educational change is sold, how ideas get better and how they get corrupted.

All of this will help us build out the page in Wikipedia, but it will also start a discussion about our own struggles as educator activists.

Here's some historical threads to follow.

She was a proponent of the New Education.

New Education

She gave a speech at the Mechanic's Fair.

Mechanic's Fair

Her 1886 work was called Educational Psychology.

Educational Psychology

She was friends with Jane Andrews.

Jane Andrews

Some more general historical setting starting points.

Kindergarten Cottage

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

Manual Training

Silver Street Free Kindergarten

Froebel Education

Here are some theoretical questions:

What were the Differences between New and Progressive Education?

Differences between New and Progressive Education

What were the Psychological Justifications for her methodologies?

Psychological Justifications

What did Hopkins see as her Pedagogical Influences?

Pedagogical Influences

And given what existed, what were John Dewey's Real Contributions to the movement?

John Dewey's Real Contributions

What does this say about How Change Happens? What Theories of Change fit this model, and what do they tell us about our own moment.

How Change Happens

Theories of Change

Here are some data research questions:

Can we estimate the size and prominence of the New Education movement?

The Index provides some short entry points as well.

Index