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Encyclopedia of
the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education

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Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education

Eugene F. Provenzo Jr. & Asterie Baker Provenzo

Pub. date: 2009 | Online Pub. Date: December 16, 2008 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412963992 | Print ISBN: 9781412906784 | Online ISBN: 9781412963992| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.

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Culture Epoch Theory

E. V. Johanningmeier

Culture epoch theory holds that the civil and religious history of a people is characterized by a succession of ever more complex and sophisticated periods that are distinguishable from one another and that the study of children reveals a parallel development. The theory essentially holds that history is a record of progress from the primitive to the civilized state and that individual abilities, mental ...

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