About The Charlotte Mason Educational Review
Those of us working together to bring you the Charlotte Mason Educational Review hope you will find much useful information and help in the pages of the Review. In a world where we are bombarded by instructional theories, some which are not sound, we wish to bring you a bit of good information about teaching and learning. Welcome to the Charlotte Mason Educational Review.
This effort is a joint activity between The Armitt Library and Museum, Ambleside, England and ChildLightUSA which is a nonprofit based in the United States. The The Review has a byline of Educational Thought Transcending Time. In this The Review we want to bring you some of Mason's beliefs about education that transcend time and make useful application of these principles into our own day.
We are very pleased to have this joint effort from both sides of the Atlantic. It only seems fitting that Mason's beloved Lake District and mother country, the United Kingdom, be a part of this effort. Due to Susan Schaeffer Macaulay's book For the Children's Sake (1984) Mason has a revival occurring in the United States and the United Kingdom. We hope to combine this revival with the source of Mason's archives to produce a review of excellent quality for current educationalists interested in Mason's work. In this brief note to the readers I want to explain our goals for creating the the Review, briefly describe the organisation of the The Review and introduce you to the people behind the scenes who will be working very hard to make this The Review possible. I'll begin with the goals.
Goals for the Review
There are five broad purposes for this online journal. Practically speaking we want to provide people with knowledge and information about Mason. That can take shape in a number of ways:
1) Our plans are to look back historically to Mason's life
and times to help us understand more about her context, her thinking and ideas.
2) Not wanting to live in the past however, the editors want to make use of Mason's ideas
in our times. How are her educational thoughts that transcend time applicable to
us in our current situation whether we live in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Korea,
or the United States or any country in the world today applying her ideas.