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Library Director Marlene Power and her team at Redeemer have recoded 31,000 digital documents \u00a0and moved them from an unstable online platform to a new digital home as the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection<\/a>. The collection contains letters, manuscripts, minutes, notebooks, artifacts, and more\u2014all of which give testament and insight into the organizational details and accomplishments of Mason. The collection digitizes the vast majority of the Charlotte Mason Collection at the Armitt Library and Museum<\/a> in Ambleside, Cumbria, UK.<\/p>\n

Why digitize the work of Charlotte Mason? Mason (1842-1923), a teacher, gave a course of lectures on education in the winter of 1885-86 that unleashed a flurry of educational accomplishments for the next four decades\u2014and the Armitt\u2019s Charlotte Mason Collection contains many artifacts from those years.<\/p>\n

At the heart of it all is a vision for education that was far ahead of its time, an approach based on a distinct view of the child and how children learn. Mason\u2019s ideas about the personhood of the child and the need for the student to directly engage \u201cideas and things\u201d continue to resonate, and even gain traction, into the twenty-first century. For teachers and parents Mason’s philosophy means extensive use of literature (not textbooks of pre-digested knowledge); hours spent each day in natural settings; development of attention and observation through picture study and nature study; and assessment and evaluation through narration (that is, retelling through spoken or written word\u2014and other means\u2014of what one knows on a topic).<\/p>\n

Today, many home-schooling parents are inspired by Charlotte Mason. Increasing numbers of schools\u2014private schools and charter schools<\/a>\u2014are established around her ideas. Many public school teachers are increasingly aware of her ideas and methods, and are incorporating her ideas in their education programs and planning. Organizations such as the Charlotte Mason Institute annually convene teachers and researchers to discuss Mason\u2019s philosophy and practice.<\/p>\n

Between the year of her first lecture and the year of her death, Mason wrote six volumes on education, established a parents\u2019 educational union, a teachers\u2019 college, a journal for parents and teachers, a network of schools, and a correspondence curriculum. Many of the related artifacts are in the CMDC and are now, because of the work of Power and her team, available on WorldCat\u2014which means more researchers and casual browsers will come across them. An added benefit is that the CMDC documents now open easily and quickly.<\/p>\n

The collection\u2019s launch is great news to Charlotte Mason educators and researchers around the world. \u201cWonderful, wonderful, wonderful,\u201d were the first words from Australian educator, Jeanne Grant Webb, within minutes of the announcement being made via Facebook on Friday, March 18, 2016. \u201cExciting news that makes the Armitt archives more accessible. It brings tears to my eyes!\u201d wrote Bonnie Buckingham, a teacher from North Carolina, a moment later. At the time of the announcement one of the original digitizers, Dr. Jack Beckman<\/a> of Covenant College in Georgia, stated that he remembered the project as a \u201cdelightful time professionally and personally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warm congratulations were extended from local and international faculty and scholars alike. Dr. Christina Belcher<\/a> spoke positively on the increasing accessibility of the collection. University of Cumbria emeritus professor Dr. Hilary Cooper<\/a> commented from Dublin, Ireland that Charlotte Mason, and her educational legacy, are now a crucial selling point of the University of Cumbria. Dr. Carroll Smith, former dean of education at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina, shared the announcement from Virginia to more than 2,000 Charlotte Mason educators worldwide.<\/p>\n

Since its establishment through a Social Science and Humanities Research Council grant in 2009, Marlene Power has been delighted to see the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection attracting a growing number of visitors every month as well as a steady flow of email enquiries from all over North America and the UK. \u201cThere is no doubt that it plays an important role in this emerging area of scholarship and educational practice,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we are pleased with this new user-friendly phase in the life of the collection!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Written by Deani Van Pelt<\/a>, director of the Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education, senior fellow at the think tank Cardus and former director and professor of teacher education at Redeemer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The digital collection contains the letters, manuscripts and artifacts of an educator who continues to influence twenty-first century 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