Kim Sloan
Author of Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century
About the Author
Kim Sloan is Curator of the British School in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.
Works by Kim Sloan
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- Birthdate
- c1955
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupations
- museum curator (British Museum)
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- 4.4
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I knew very little about it myself until my most recent visit to the British Museum and discovered the Enlightenment Gallery. I enjoyed a talk about it at the Summer School for Teachers in 2008, which you can download if you are interested here: it’s called The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia. I subsequently heard more about it later that year at the History Teachers Conference from Mike Wohltman, a colleague I met at the History Summer School, and a teacher from Marden College in Adelaide. He was passionate about the need to teach students to value reason in decision-making and to use it to combat prejudice and ignorance.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2010/03/06/enlightenment-discovering-the-world-in-the-e...… (more)