Blood River, Battle of
Blood River, Battle of (16 December 1838) A battle fought between Voortrekkers (Afrikaners) and
ZULUS, led by
DINGAAN, near a tributary of the Buffalo River. The river became known as Blood River after its waters were reddened with the blood of some 3000 Zulus, killed to avenge the slaughter of about 500 Afrikaners earlier in the year. The Zulu defeat enabled the Afrikaners to establish the Republic of Natal.
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: 18th Century Swiss Educator and Correctional Reformer
Magazine article from: Journal of Correctional Education; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...This article focuses on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, 18th century Swiss educator...found on a monument over Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's grave: Here lies Heinrich...the work and ideals of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. His concern for "the...
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Child's play. (influence of Friedrich Frobel's kindergarten system, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for American Architecture, Columbia University, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...worth reexamining. The names Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Christian Weiss may ring...20th century was profound. Pestalozzi was one of the first educators...Yverdon, Switzerland, in 1804, Pestalozzi's success with orphans and...
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The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools
Magazine article from: Composition Studies; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...known Swiss educational reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and the more obscure (certainly...John Frost. Schultz compared Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with Jean Jacques Rousseau in that Pestalozzi believed "in the importance...
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Raising taste expectations on European TILTING TRAINS.(Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, Swiss Federal Railway, Swiss dining cars)
Magazine article from: Mass Transit; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...ICN pendulum train as the "Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi" sped on its press debut between...train addition. The tilting Pestalozzi -- named for the famed Swiss...Kiefer told reporters aboard the Pestalozzi a few weeks before the first...
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Integrating internet-based mathematical manipulatives within a learning environment.
Magazine article from: Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...hands-on learning' was the Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827). Pestalozzi asserted that students need to learn through...before words, concrete before abstract" (Pestalozzi, 1803). However, the introduction of...
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TELL CITY AT AGE 150 HOME IS WHERE OUR HEARTS FIND SOLACE ALONG WIDE STREETS
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current); 9/11/2008; ; 689 words
; ...inventor of printing; Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was one of the founders...teaching; Friedrich Heinrich Humboldt was a German...and statesmen; and Johann Christoph Friedrich...streets of Guttenberg, Pestalozzi, Humboldt and Schiller...
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The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...in Britain; its consonance with the principles of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's educational reforms; its relevance to the Broad...The names of three men recur throughout. First is Heinrich Hubsch, the architect whose book In welchem Stil...
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Thomas D. Curran. Educational Reform in Republican China: The Failure of Educators to Create a Modern Nation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...educational system. Curran gives an excellent description of the impact early Western educational theorists Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Johann Friedrich Herbart had on Chinese educational reformers, and the reformers' eventual decision to abandon...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/17/1994; 590 words
; ...Nights, 1715; James Macpherson, poet, 1796; Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, educationist, 1827; William Collins, painter...John Martin, historical painter, 1854; (Harry) Heinrich Heine, poet, 1856; John Braham (Abraham), singer...
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Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressive Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Indeed, stressing his importance, Kieran Egan casually notes that Spencer "took many of his principles from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi" (46). Such statements do not lead to careful examinations of intellectual influence, social context...
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi The Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) envisioned a science of education based on the psychology of child development. He laid the foundation of the modern primary school. Johann Pestalozzi was...
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Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (1746–1827)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (1746 – 1827) Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a writer, political and social reformer, and educator...
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Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (1746–1827) Swiss educational reformer whose theories formed the basis of modern elementary education. His books include How Gertrude Teaches Her Children (1801).
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Pestalozzi, Johann (1746–1827)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
PESTALOZZI, JOHANN (1746 – 1827) In the...the significant contributions of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi are (1) his educational philosophy...Switzerland, Pestalozzi was the son of Johann Baptiste Pestalozzi, a middle...
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Herbart, Johann (1776–1841)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
...intellectuals as Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Friedrich von Schiller...he was also influenced by the thinking of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, whose school at Burgdorf he visited and whose...
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