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Education Library — Index

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Education Library — Index

The study of teaching, learning, and schooling — education as a discipline in its own right: its aims and history, the science of how people learn, what is taught and how, how learning is measured, and the policy and technology that shape systems. Complements Society/Sociology/sociology-of-education (the social-structural view — reproduction, credentials, opportunity) and draws on Society/Psychology/ (the cognitive basis of learning) and Society/Economics/ (human capital, school finance).

  • Status: Tier 1 complete — 6 notes (foundations; the science of learning & teaching ×3; systems & change ×2), authored 2026-06-03.
  • Conventions: named thinkers, works, and dates throughout; titles in italic; psychometric/economic formulas in KaTeX; literal dollar amounts escaped; no emojis.

Tier 1 — Foundations

TopicFileScope
Foundations & philosophy of educationfoundations-and-philosophy-of-educationaims, history (Plato→Dewey→Freire), the philosophies, critical pedagogy

Tier 1 — The science of learning and teaching

TopicFileScope
Learning theory & educational psychologylearning-theory-and-educational-psychologybehaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, motivation, the science of learning
Curriculum & instructioncurriculum-and-instructioncurriculum theory, the standards wars, pedagogy, teaching models, the profession
Assessment, measurement & evaluationassessment-measurement-and-evaluationformative/summative, classical test theory, IRT, standardized testing, program evaluation

Tier 1 — Systems and change

TopicFileScope
Education policy, economics & reformeducation-policy-economics-and-reformhuman capital & returns, school finance, the achievement gap, accountability, choice
Educational technology & online learningeducational-technology-and-online-learninginstructional design, the LMS, online/distance learning, MOOCs, AI tutoring

Adjacent libraries

  • sociology-of-education — the social-structural view of schooling (reproduction, credentials, the opportunity structure)
  • Psychology — the cognitive and developmental basis of learning (and psychometrics)
  • Economics — human capital, returns to schooling, the economics of school finance
  • Philosophy — the philosophy of education (aims, epistemology, ethics of teaching)
  • Compute — the AI and learning-analytics behind contemporary educational technology

6 items under this folder.