6. • CHINA (300 bc-1900 ad)
• Educational Goals: Prepare elites to govern
the empire according
to Confusian principles
• Students: Male of upper classes
• Instructional Methods: Memorization and
Recitation
• Curriculum: Confucian classics
• Agents: Government Officials
• Influence on education:Written examinations
for civil service
ORIENTAL EDUCATION
8. • Sumerian(2500 B.C.E.)
• Educational Goals: Students were instructed
in literacy botany, zoology,
mathematics,geology
among others.
• Students: It was open to any boy who could
afford it. Boys started schooling at six or
seven and continued for up to 10 years.
• Instructional Methods: Writing and Reading
• Curriculum: practiced polytheism
• Agents: priest
• Influence on education:theocracy- political
and religious leadership is combined
SUMERIAN EDUCATION
10. • Instructional Methods: Writing and Reading
• Curriculum: practiced polytheism
• Agents: priest
• Influence on education:
• (300 bc-300bc)
• Educational Goals:To prepare priest according
to scribe for the empire
• Students: Male of upper class
• Instructional Methods: Memorization and
copying texts
• Curriculum: Religion or Technical text
• Agents: Priest and scribes
• Influence on education: Restriction on
educational control to priest elites
EGYPTIAN EDUCATION
12. • Educational Goals:comes from the Bible and
the Talmud
• Students: Children
• Instructional Methods: advised parents to
teach their children religious beliefs, law,
ethical practices, and vocational skills.
• Curriculum: Religious
• Agents: Rabbis taught in schools within
synagogues, places of worship and religious
study.
• Influence on education: Western Learning
JEWISH EDUCATION