Joseph Farrell Profile

Joseph Farrell Profile - Monsignor Joseph A. Farrell (April 29, 1873 – June 19, 1960) was an Irish-American Roman Catholic priest.

Holding various positions in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Msgr. Joseph Farrell was instrumental in the construction of several new Parishes in the New York City Borough of Staten Island. A teacher at St. Peter's Boys High School another boy's high school, Monsignor Farrell High School was dedicated to and named in his honor in 1961. Joseph Farrell Profile

Dina Feitelson Profile

Dina Feitelson Profile - Dina Feitelson, also known as Dina Feitelson - Schur (born 1926, died 1992), was an Israeli educator and scholar in the field of reading acquisition.

Biography Dina Feitelson

Dina Feitelson was born in 1926 in Vienna, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1934. He studied at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in grade 32, who graduated in 1944. After graduation he studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His studies were interrupted by Israel's War of Independence. During the war he suffered a severe head injury.

After graduation he worked as an elementary school teacher and then as an inspector for the Department of Education. In parallel he also embarked on an academic career, first at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Then, in 1973, he accepted a post at the University of Haifa, where he became professor of Education. He continued to work there until his death in 1992.

Awards and Honors Dina Feitelson

In 1953, awarded the Israel Prize Feitelson, in its first year, in the field of education for his work on the causes of failure in first grade children. She is the first woman to receive this prize, and also the youngest recipient ( he was 27 ). Shortly before his death, Feitelson inducted into the International Reading Association Reading Hall of Fame.

In 1997, the International Reading Association Dina Feitelson Research Award establish, to honor the memory of Dina Feitelson by recognizing outstanding empirical studies published in English in the journal in question. The work must be reported on one or more aspects of literacy acquisition, such as phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, bilingualism, or cross-cultural studies of early reading.

Publication Dina Feitelson

Feitelson, Dina (1988 ). Facts and Fads in Beginning Reading : A Cross - Language Perspective. Norwood, New Jersey, USA : Ablex. ISBN 0-89391-507-6.

Further Reading

Joseph Shimron, ed. ( 1996). Literacy and Education : Essays in memory of Dina Feitelson. Kresskill, New Jersey, USA : Hampton Press Inc. ISBN 1-57273-033-1. Dina Feitelson Profile

Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert Profile

Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert Profile - Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (abbreviated Hans-W;. Born 1954) is a German professor of Egyptology at the Institut für Ägyptologie, University of Leipzig, Germany. 

Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert received his Ph.D., which was written under the direction of Prof. Wolfgang Helck, of the University of Hamburg. He mainly took part in the writing of Lexikon der Ägyptologie. His research focuses on ancient Egyptian literature, religion, medicine and magic. Hans-

Werner Fischer-Elfert Profile

Halvard Grude Forfang Profile

Halvard Grude Forfang Profile - Halvard Grude Forfang (24 December 1914-6 July 1987) was a Norwegian educator. He was born in Bærum as the son of a chemical engineer Einar Forfang (1881-1950) and Agnes Grude ( 1885-1958 ). He is the nephew of Karen Grude Koht. Home environment characterized by movement norskdom. His family are members Noregs Mållag.

Halvard Grude Forfang completed his secondary education in Stabekk in 1934, and took the cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1941. After several years as a teacher, he led the Nansen Academy from 1946 to 1971. He was responsible for the rebuilding of the school, which was closed during the German occupation of Norway. After resigning as president he continued as a teacher, finally retiring in 1981. His books include two volumes on the history of the Nansen Academy, was released in 1977 and 1982, and 1945 biography of Ivar Kleiven, which was originally his master's thesis. He died in July 1987 in Lillehammer. Halvard Grude Forfang Profile

Anna S. Fisher Profile

Anna S. Fisher Profile - Anna S. Fisher (1873-1942), is an artist and teacher, of Cold Brook, New York. He studied at Pratt Institute Art School in Brooklyn, New York, graduating in 1900. [2] He later taught at Pratt for forty years.

Anna S. Fisher is a member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Academy Museum and School; American Watercolor Society, New York Society of Painters; Allied Artists of America;. National Arts Club and the National Association of Women Artists.

His work is in the collections of many major institutions: Pratt Institute Art School, Brooklyn Museum, the National Academy of Design, National Arts Club, and others. Anna S. Fisher Profile

Conchita Espinosa Profile

Conchita Espinosa Profile - Conchita Espinosa (February 23, 1914 - September 19, 2006) was a famous pianist in the world that combines academics and art to create a style of education that exists today at Conchita Espinosa Academy in Miami, Florida.

Early life and education Conchita Espinosa

When Conchita was three years old, she played the popular Cuban melody in the piano by ear for the first time at an ice cream shop. He began formal piano lessons when he was five years old. At age 14, Espinosa graduated from the Conservatorio Internacional de Música in Havana as a professor of piano and music theory. He continued his musical education with professors and renowned artists

career Conchita Espinosa

In 1933, at the age of 19, he founded La Academia Musical Conchita Espinosa in Havana. In 1959, at the end of the pro - Western government of Batista, the Academy - which includes an elementary school and a program of music and dance - has 450 students. Three decades later, after leaving Fidel Castro of Cuba and arrived in Miami, Espinosa continued his work as a music teacher.

In 1963, he opened the Conchita Espinosa Academy in Miami, in the garage of a small house in the neighborhood that would later become Little Havana. The Academy grew in enrollment, until, in 1984, he moved to the 10 - acre (40,000 m2) parcel. School now serves students in grades pre - kindergarten through eighth grade. Conchita Espinosa Academy is now directed by his daughter, Maribel Diaz.

Awards Conchita Espinosa

During his extensive career, Espinosa received many honors including the Richard and Dorothy Lear Memorial Distinguished Educator Award (March 1994) and Legacy of Excellence Award presented by General Motors in 1999 Miami Hispanic Heritage Festival. In addition, he received the Conchita Espinosa Day statement of both the City of Miami and Miami - Dade County (:. In 2001, SW 6th street - the front Conchita Espinosa Academy - named Honorary last submitted to Conchita Espinosa Way. Espinosa before death is a prestigious Medalla Nacional Cubana de Excelencia of the Instituto de San Carlos de Cayo Hueso in May 2006. Conchita Espinosa Profile

Dentler Erdmann Profile

Dentler Erdmann Profile - Dentler Erdmann was a business education teacher in Los Angeles, California, Belmont High School until retirement. In 1975, he was named California Teacher of the Year.

For many years of service in the Belmont, Dentler Erdmann was student council advisor, school yearbook staff, and the school newspaper, The Belmont Sentinel. On September 23, 2011, Belmont High School football stadium was renamed Stadio Dentler Erdmann. Dentler Erdmann Profile

Michael Ewanchuk Profile

Michael Ewanchuk Profile - Michael Ewanchuk (1908-2004) Canadian educator, historian of Ukrainian origin. Doctor of Laws from the University of Winnipeg and a Doctor of Canon Law from St. John's College of the University of Manitoba.

Michael Ewanchuk some works

1. Spruce, Swamp and Stone: A History of the Pioneer Ukrainian Settlements in the Gimli area by Michael Ewanchuk
2. Publisher: Michael Ewanchuk, Winnipeg. Date Published: 1977 ISBN 978-0-9690768-3-4, ISBN 0-9690768-3-5
3. Michael Ewanchuk, William Kurelek: Suffering Genius Steinbach, Manitoba: Printers Perksen and Michael Ewanchuk Publishing, 1996
4. Ewanchuk, Michael (1977). Vita: A Community of Ukraine. Books 1-3. Vita, Manitoba: Boundary School Division No. 16. Michael Ewanchuk Profile

Tom Jenkins Profile

Tom Jenkins Profile - Tom Jenkins is the first black school teacher British. Tom Jenkins was a farm worker who was taken from Upper Guinea, which then spent a brief period of study at the University of Edinburgh. He then traveled to London where he trained and worked as a teacher in Britain and Foreign School Society.

Encouraging innovation is the impetus behind the Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) and the annual Canada 3.0. CDMN mission is to accelerate digital commercialization in Canada by connecting key nodes of digital media - the center of the development, acceleration centers, and commercialization hubs - across the country. 

Premier digital media event Canada Canada 3.0 is a major enabler of this, many parties to unite and focus on making digital media more relevant in the country. As Chairman of the Advisory Board CDMN, I was impressed with the progress CDMN in connect the dots to enable collaboration on a national level. Tom Jenkins Profile

Howard Jachter Profile

Howard Jachter Profile - Howard (Chaim) Jachter is a prominent rabbi on the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). Howard Jachter is also a teacher at the Torah Academy of Bergen County. He is well known for his articles in TABC's weekly Torah Publication, Kol Torah, many of which form the base of his books Gray Matter, Gray Matter 2, Gray Matter 3, and Gray Matter 4. He is an expert Get (Jewish Divorce) administrator and community Eruv designer.

A resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, Rabbi Jachter serves as chairperson of the Agunah Prevention and Resolution Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America, where he champions the use of prenuptial agreements to avoid the issues created if the husband refuses to give or receive a Get. Howard Jachter Profile

Benjamin Jepson Profile

Benjamin Jepson Profile - Benjamin Jepson (1832 - 1914) was one of the first elementary school music teacher in the United States, and introduces music to public schools in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1865. The Benjamin Jepson Interdistrict Magnet School and The Jepson School which is named after him.

Studied at Yale University under G. J. Stoeckel and Dr Horatio W. Parker; pupil of Charles Marie Widor. Organist of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1894-1939. Taught at Yale University. b. New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., Aug. 16th, 1870; d. Noank, Connecticut, Aug. 23rd, 1952. Benjamin Jepson Profile

Lenore Jacobson Profile

Lenore Jacobson Profile - Lenore F Jacobson is the head of a primary school in Unified School District South San Francisco in 1963 when he began a correspondence with Harvard psychologist Robert Rosenthal is causing Pygmalion Effect study effect.

Jacobson, who had received an MA degree from California State University, Sacramento in 1951, wrote a letter to Rosenthal after he published a paper in American Scientist about the influence of the researcher hopes on their subjects in psychological experiments. In the article he mentions the possibility that a self-fulfilling prophecy similar may be at work between teachers and students. Once they began corresponding, Rosenthal Jacobson offered help and they agreed to collaborate on studies in school. Experimental design for this study resolved when Rosenthal went to San Francisco to meet Jacobson for the first time in 1964.

They published their findings in Psychological Reports, 1966, vol. 19. This led to the publication of Pygmalion in the Classroom in 1968. Seven years later Jacobson and Paul M. Insel published What do you expect : ? An investigation of self-fulfilling prophecy, ( California 1975). Lenore Jacobson Profile

Arthur L. Johnson Profile

Arthur L. Johnson Profile - Dr. Arthur L. Johnson (died 1955) was an educator in the state of New Jersey and the namesake of Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark.

Johnson served as school superintendent for Union County, Union County College founder and helped organize the Union County Band and Orchestra Summer School and Eastern Conservatory of Music and Arts.

Arthur L. Johnson also helped set up a system of area high schools in the district, which lasts until July 1997. Johnson died in 1955, shortly before the new high school set to open in Clark. The district chose to name the school, which is part of the district and the district is now operating as part of the Public School System Clark, in his honor. Arthur L. Johnson Profile

Samuel M. Inglis Profile

Samuel M. Inglis Profile - Samuel M. Educatior Inglis a nineteenth-century America. He played an important role in the development of education in Illinois before his appointment, including the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. With this position, he is ex-officio member of several educational facilities of post - high school of Illinois, including the Eastern Illinois Normal School.

Samuel M. Inglis was born in Marietta, Pennsylvania. Early education took place at Ohio public schools. His family moved to Illinois, where he graduated from Mendota Collegiate Institute with the first award in 1861. In about 1864, he joined the 104th Illinois Infantry. In 1887, he married Anna Louise Jackson, Hillsborough native who died in 1892. He married Louise Baumberger of Greenville three years later.

In addition to serving as State Superintendent of Public Instruction, he was a trustee of the Northern Illinois Normal School as Head of Mathematics and, later, Chairman of the Literature, Rhetoric, and elocution. He was a delegate to the National Convention of Illinois Educators.

He was elected president of the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, or what is known today as Eastern Illinois University on April 12, 1898. He died on June 1, 1898 vacationing in Kenosha, Wisconsin, prior to his official duties will begin in September 1899. Samuel M. Inglis Profile

Tim Ingold Profile

Tim Ingold Profile - Tim Ingold ( born 1948) is a British anthropologist, currently Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He was educated at Leighton Park School and Cambridge University. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His bibliography includes Environmental Perception :. Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, Routledge, 2000, which is a collection of essays, some of which have been published previously.

bibliography Tim Ingold

Come Alive : Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description ( 2011). London : Routledge.

Lines : a brief history (2007 ). London : Routledge.

The perception of the environment : essays on life, dwelling and skill (2000 ). London : Routledge.

Key Debates in Anthropology (1996 )

Evolution and social life (1986 ). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Appropriation of nature : essays on human ecology and social relations (1986 ). Manchester : Manchester University Press.

Hunters, pastoralists and ranchers : reindeer economies and their transformations (1980 ). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

The Skolt Lapps today ( 1976). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Tim Ingold Profile

Isaac W. Waddell Profile

Isaac W. Waddell Profile - Isaac W. Waddell ( born October 6, 1849 in Marietta, GA ) was a Presbyterian minister in Brunswick, GA and the third president of the North Georgia Agricultural College ( now the University of North Georgia ). He is the grandson of a former president of the University of Georgia Moses Waddel.

early life

Isaac Watts Waddel was born in Marietta, Georgia on October 6, 1849. He is the son of Dr. Isaac Watts and Sarah Rebecca Daniel Waddel Waddel. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Georgia in 1870 and 1873 respectively. Waddel in 1882 was ordained by the presbytery of Savannah. He served as an evangelist in the rectory of Macon from 1890 to 1893.

Services in education

In 1893, facing pressure from the trustees, William Starr Basinger resigned from his post as president of North Georgia Agricultural College ( NGAC ) and was replaced by Isaac Watts Waddel. [ 2 ] During the four years of his presidency at school Waddell stay in hotel building, which remains a prominent building located in Dahlonega town square.

At the beginning of the Waddel presidency in 1893 NGAC male enrollment in college fell to ninety. Because NGAC asked to register at least one hundred male students, the school loses appropriation next year. However, at the end of the presidential Waddel male student enrollment in the school increased far above this mark and forfeiture to the college restored. Isaac W. Waddell Profile

Iwamoto Yoshiharu Profile

Iwamoto Yoshiharu Profile - Iwamoto Yoshiharu (1863-1942), also known as Iwamoto Zenji, was early and prominent advocate of women's education in Meiji Japan.

Born in Izushi in Izushi Domain, now part of Hyogo Prefecture, Iwamoto as the second son of Inoue Tobei. At the age of six he was adopted into the maternal line under Iwamoto Hanji. He began his education by Nakamura Masanao in 1876 at Nakamura Dojinsha school, where he learned English, in 1880 he advanced to Tsuda Sen Friends School to study agriculture. In 1882 he took a place at the school Kimura Kumaji to study Christian theology. He was baptized in 1883.

In 1885, in collaboration with the Kondo KENZO, Iwamoto long publishing career began with the Journal of Women's Education. There, and after that, Iwamoto wrote expressly to advocate changes in Japanese society with respect to the role of women in society. He called for better education for women, the expansion of their civil rights, and to refoundation marriage out of love and respect between husband and wife. To be clear, though, he believes that a woman's place is in the home - they will be educated to run an efficient, hygienic, and economical home so as to raise children who are intelligent, moral, and service-minded.

Started in 1885 to help establish Iwamoto and taught at Meiji School Girls' in Kojimachi, Tokyo Tsuda Umeko, Kimura KENZO, Shimada Saburo, and Tada Umachi. Iwamoto Yoshiharu Profile