You can enhance the following activities from the Instructor's Resource Manual by incorporating the resources available on the World Wide Web.

Cultural Context

The Instructor's Resource Manual suggests the following class activity and assignment:

• Assign small groups of students one of the historical periods discussed in the chapter. The task for each group is to produce a multimedia presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) that illustrates key characteristics of the culture during the described time period and how these institutions operated within the larger cultural context. Traditional text-based research could be used to gather information, but another option could be to gather information through the World Wide Web.
• Assign students to choose one of the historical periods covered in this chapter and prepare a report on the educational opportunities of various groups of people during that period. Who had the most and least access to education during the period? Why?

In addition, you may want to suggest to students some web sites where they can get information about historical time periods, including:

The History of Education and Childhood
This site, from Nijmegen University in the Netherlands can help you learn more about nearly every topic in this chapter. It provides biographies of leading educators and discussions of their ideas, the history of education in many different countries, and a wealth of other material on the history of education.

Educational Theorists

The Instructor's Resource Manual suggests this assignment:
As a whole class, choose several of the educational theorists discussed in the chapter. Plan a panel discussion among them. Choose representatives from your class to role-play the theorists, and identify key questions about education to ask them. Afterward, write a short reflective paper that analyzes how closely the panel discussion seemed to you to match the ideas of the "real" theorists.

You may want to point out a few web sites where students can get more information on the theorists they are role-playing:

The History of Education and Childhood
This site, from Nijmegen University in the Netherlands can help you learn more about nearly every topic in this chapter. It provides biographies of leading educators and discussions of their ideas, the history of education in many different countries, and a wealth of other material on the history of education.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education Online
An alphabetically arranged compendium of philosophy of education topics.

Gallery of Educational Theorists
The creator of this site, Edward G. Rozycki, has included the answers of many theorists to a standard set of questions: What is worth knowing? What is knowledge? What is the human being? What is learning? How is knowledge to be transmitted? What is society? Who is to have the opportunity? What is consensus?

Thinkers on Education
This site contains profiles of 100 famous educators and philosophers published in Prospects, the quarterly review of comparative education sponsored by UNESCO.