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Jane Roland Martin

Her Philosophy...

Her Life...

Her Importance...

  • Jane Roland Martin was born in New York City on July 20, 1929. She is still living at 85 years old.
  • Her father was a newspaper man and her mother was a Home Economics teacher
  • She went to the Little Red Schoolhouse for Elementary and High School in New York.
  • Martin grew up receiving a largely progressive education.
  • After receiving a degree in political theory she became an elementary school teacher and completed a Ph.D. in philosophy and education.
  • She went on to hold several different adjunt positions at the University of Massachusetts, Boston where she eventually became an undergraduate professor emerita in the philosophy department.

Jane Roland Martin is a social re-constructionist. She likes to challenge schools to focus their attention on what she called the three Cs; caring, concern, and connection. She fears that because more and more children are being educated outside the home the 3C curriculum is in danger of being lost. She believes in equal educational opportunities for males and females and not enforcing gender roles upon students.

Jane Roland Martin and her ideas are important in today's society for may reasons; chief of which being that she supported equality for both genders, a hot button issue in today's media. She paved the way for women who wanted to go to further their education for years.

Educational importance...

How She Speaks to Us...

Jane Roland Martin and her ideas are important to us as educators in today's society because there are so many double standards for the genders and because most children are educated outside the home it falls to teachers to help build children's ideas about gender roles and how to interact with people of the opposite sex.

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Sources

  • Miller Sadker, D., & Zittlemen, K.R. (2010). Teachers schools and society (Ninth Ed.). McGraw. p. 287
  • Jane Roland Martin. Goodreads. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Apr. 2015.
  • Thayer-Bacon, B. (2012). Review of Jane Roland Martin’s, Education Reconfigured: Culture, Encounter, and Change.
  • Waks, L. (2007). Encounter: The Educational Metamorphoses of Jane Roland Martin.
  • "Philosophical Insights From: Jane Roland Martin." Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Apr. 2015.
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