A Design for Development:

 The Legacy of Robbie Case
 
October 6 and 7, 2000
 
Croft Chapter House & Rm.179
University College
University of Toronto

 Tom Rohlen


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Psychologist Turning Archeologist: A Report of a Friendship

During the last five years of his life Robbie Case was engaged in a serious exploration of the historical relationships and evolutionary patterns among knowledge, technology, governance, and education beginning with Sumerian math and including the ancient world, medieval learning, the rise of the nation state, and concluding with current debates about the eventual impact on education of new information technologies and globalization. His first written foray (unpublished) into this realm applied a model of human development to the evolutionary outlines of the last ten thousand years of human history. His enthusiasm and deepening learning in this project, what he would have labeled a serious hobby, were quite impressive. Especially notable was that Robbie's perspectives on the past raised fascinating questions for students about the future of education.

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