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Charlotte Mason Educational Conference Lectures
Speaker: Jennifer Spencer
BiographyJennifer Spencer has worked for thirteen years in home, private, and public schools with children in preschool through high school. She has a bachelors degree in early childhood education and a masters in elementary education, and she is currently pursuing a doctoral degree from Gardner-Webb University in curriculum and instruction. Her passion for Charlotte Mason's educational philosophy and practices keeps her involved in a wide range of activities, including research, writing, speaking engagements, consultant work, and curriculum planning. Jennifer is the assistant director at The Village School of Gaffney.
Topic: How Firm a Foundation:
Rebuilding Education in the Mason School(2009) How Firm a Foundation examines the underlying principles that support Mason's methods. The paradigm of education with which most of us grew up was rooted in classicism and industrialism, both of which are very humanistic and materialistic. If we simply add Mason's methods to those existing ideas, we fall way short of the mark. A comparison can be made here to the ideas of salvation through works and salvation through grace; we want the behaviors to be an outward expression of a pivotal change that has been made in the heart. Therefore, we will study Mason's Great Recognition and the role of the Holy Spirit in education, the nature of knowledge and the nature of the learner, and the implications for methodology.
The 6th Annual Charlotte Mason Educational Conference
June 9-12, 2010
Theme for this year's conference:
A 21st Century Education: Ideas Toward a Charlotte Mason Curriculum
After a year of intense study of Mason's works, a team of people is excited to share their new-found understanding of what Mason taught about curriculum.
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