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The legacy of John Amos Comenius.(Biography)
; John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky), born in 1592...mother. From Bohemia, Comenius received a deep sense...Unity of the Brethren, Comenius inherited an unshakable...of homeland and faith, John Comenius envisioned a daring kind...
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Anniversaries
; ...1483; St Teresa of Avila, Carmelite nun, 1515; Johann Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky), reformer, 1592; George I, King of Great...physiologist, 1892; Dame Flora Robson, actress, 1902; John Langstraw Austin, philosopher, 1911. Deaths: Publius...
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Pupils' hopes are raised through European links
; ...was released by pupils from schools in County Durham participating in the Comenius programme. The European Union-backed project takes its name from John Amos Comenius, who lived from 1592 to 1670 in what is now the Czech Republic. A scholar...
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Learning for ourselves: a new paradigm for education; Learning should be taken out of the hands of antiquated school systems and put into the hands of learners, argues a professor and education consultant.
; ...educating students, schools have always had their limitations. As early as the seventeenth century, educational reformer John Amos Comenius described schools as the slaughterhouses of the mind. Charles Dickens referred to school methodologies as childhood...
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Visitors from Europe swop school notes.(News)
; ...School as part of the European Comenius Project. That project, which...teacher, scientist and writer John Amos Comenius, who was one of the earliest...Nuneaton and Bedworth, Cllr John Preedy. CAPTION(S): RB131007MAGG1...Nuneaton and Bedworth Cllr John Preedy (front, right) with...
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Parroting the classics doesn't always work
; ...named Bob Hash, no less) swapping bodies with a parrot named after the 15th century universal education advocate John Amos Comenius. But David Deans, a Scottish ESL instructor situated in Italy, has done just that with The Defenestration of Bob...
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The Pedagogy of The Sun Also Rises.
; ...wrote the great Moravian educator and reformer John Amos Comenius almost four centuries ago. Comenius believed that teachers learn in the very act...47). Educators past and present agree with Comenius that teachers learn by teaching. The sixteenth...
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Facilitating the Integration of Culture and Vocabulary Learning: The Categorization and Use of Pictures in the Classroom
; ...in the 17th century writings of John Amos Comenius,2 who stated that "words should...objects to which they refer" (Comenius, 1896, p. 356). That quote was...in 1923 and then again in 1967 (Comenius, 1967). The same passage was once...
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Interfacing Smual Hartlib. (seventeenth century archivist)
; ...Protestant theologian, John Dury, whose incessant...Protestant exile, Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius), were of the greatest...Hartlib probably knew of Comenius well before they began...common elements shared by Comenius and Hartlib. They both...
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Between East-Central Europe and Britain: reformation and science as vehicles of intellectual communication in the mid-seventeenth century.
; ...a huge web of scholarly intelligence; John Dury, an English Protestant divine and...theoretician of Christian unity and Bohemian Jan Amos Comenius, the creator of a universalist philosophical...observed with much pride to his friend John Worthington, philosopher and Master of...
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