Historical artifact
Write a paper analyzing an historical artifact from education. For this paper, find an historical artifact from schooling from at least 50 years ago (or thereabouts).
The artifact might be a policy statement of some sort, piece of curriculum, a student test, grade report, teaching text or artifact, images, or another remnant of past schooling.
Answers to the following questions, where appropriate:
What assumptions about school knowledge are present?
What philosophy of education and curriculum are described?
What assumptions about teachers’ work and/or roles are present?
What assumptions about the students work and /or roles are present?
What assumptions about the nature of learning are present?
What assumptions about the organization of education experiences are present?
A cross-case comparison that examines changes (or lack thereof) in these artifacts over time.
An explanation of those changes based on the relevant literature. This is to say, what does research have to say about why these artifacts have changed over time?
10 double spaced pages (excluding a reference page)
2500 words
