Tom Rohlen
Outline of Talk
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 His first written foray (unpublished) into this realm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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