Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Kentucky was a model utopian society established in 1806. The Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill was a mere fraction of the Shaker movement as a whole. The Shaker religion and way of life was established in 1774 and is kept alive today by a small faction of devoted individuals. The Shakers are formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing and have roots in Protestantism. It was the second great awakening’s religious revival in the 1800s
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incorrect. According to the "Shakers: Part 1" video, the Shaker community did not practice marriage. Traditionally, all Shakers practiced celibacy- abstaining from marriage and sexual relations. The speaker in the "Shakers: Part 1" mentioned, "...although their religious views and, especially, the prohibition of marriage frightened many away..." The values of the Shaker community reflect that of a family; not a society of couples. Answer choice B is also incorrect. The "Shakers: Part 1" video and the
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Shakers The shakers were a group of united society members whom believed in Christ’s second appearing. Along with eight followers the founder, Mother Ann Lee, went to the United States from England. They settled in Watervliet, New York, north of Albany. Within the mid-1800s shakers numbered over 5 thousand brothers and sisters living in what they called societies. The shakers still exist today but in very small communities located in Canterbury, New Hampshire, and Sabbathday Lake, Maine. Shaker’s
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Movers and Shakers in Education Lee R. Whittlesey Grand Canyon University Movers and Shakers in Education Educating our children has been around for many years. In the middle of the seventeenth century, after the pilgrims arrived in the New Country, the first school where established. Since that time there have been many people and movements that have helped improve or made great contributions to the way education is today. Some of the great leaders and movements that have given growth in
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Mandi Leon Edu 210 July 15, 2013 Kimberly Werking Movers and Shakers in Education There comes a time in a teachers’ life where we always ask why. Why do we teach, why do we have to go through all of this training? Through all the years from the beginning of Plato to the current year, there have been many events that in combination define who we are and why we do what we do. In the beginning when we are kids we sit in a room looking at a person we get to know as teacher. Running through
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Movers and Shakers in Education The purpose of this paper is to evaluation and identifies the efforts and inspirations of four important individuals in history who facilitated to shape the American educational system. However the four people deliberated in this paper are definitely not the only ones who left a permanent mark upon the history of our American educational system we have in the present day, their works and morals that laid the groundwork upon which our educational system today was
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The Law of 1647 required that towns of fifty families hire a schoolmaster who would teach children to read and write. Towns of a hundred families must have a grammar schoolmaster who could prepare children to attend Harvard College. (Amy L. Matzat ) Education became more of a social responsibility as teachers were formally hired for the sole purpose of teaching the nation's young people. Perhaps even more surprising in the light of previous practice is that they were paid to do so, either by the
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Shawn Ray EDU-210 October 3rd, 2015 Tara Armstead Movers and Shakers in Education From 470 to 399 B.C. Socrates lived a life of questions. Every day he questioned people and engaged them in philosophical conversation. This earned him both many student followers and many enemies who eventually had him condemned to death. "To all the philosophers that came after him, Socrates not only left the example of his life but also a new sort of inquiry (that is, social inquiry) and a new way of pursuing
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Ugolini, Crystal EDU-210 June 23, 2013 Ms. Amy DeSylvester The Evolution of Academic Curriculum Educating the population was not a primary focus of America’s founding fathers. It soon became evident to them that formal education was necessary. Initially, the concentration was on teaching children to read so that they might be able to read the Bible and therefore become better citizens. It wasn’t too much later that this idea evolved. The general population needed to be able to read and
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Education Evolution Education is and always has been under continuous reform. Throughout history, the change of the educational system can be seen through numerous defining moments. Quality education is always the common goal but the approach has never been the same at achieving that goal. The government involvement, curriculum, and pedagogy have all been questioned over time. The common school movement began the step towards public school systems, Horace Mann and John Dewey brought new approaches
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