Louisa Parsons Hopkins

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This is a new page/page stub extension attempt. We are looking to build out information on Louisa Parsons Hopkins, the educator and activist and extend her Wikipedia page. Below are some starting questions for research, but we should find more as we go.

## Why would I spend my time on obscure history?

This may seem like it is just historical research to build a page, but it's really much more. Follow the history and you end up at questions of how educational change happens, what ideas are new, how educational change is sold, how ideas get better and how they get corrupted.

All of this will help us build out the page in Wikipedia, but it will also start a discussion about our own struggles as educator activists.

## Here's some historical threads to follow.

She was a proponent of the New Education.

She gave a speech at the Mechanic's Fair.

Her 1886 work was called Educational Psychology.

She was friends with Jane Andrews.

## Some more general historical setting starting points.

## Here are some theoretical questions:

What were the Psychological Justifications for her methodologies?

What did Hopkins see as her Pedagogical Influences?

And given what existed, what were John Dewey's Real Contributions to the movement?

What does this say about How Change Happens? What Theories of Change fit this model, and what do they tell us about our own moment.

## Here are some data research questions:

Can we estimate the size and prominence of the New Education movement?

The Index provides some short entry points as well.