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In considering the consequences of education on human development, Cole (2005) takes a cross-cultural and historical perspective that leads him back to the earliest classrooms of Indo-European civilization. He notes the historical depth of educational traditions, inferring great stability based on the arrangement of a Sumerian classroom in the ancient city of Mari, Syria.1 This classroom likely originated in the city’s second golden age under the Amorite dynasty that lasted from roughly 1,900 BCE through 1759 BCE, when the city was sacked by Hammurabi, sixth king of Babylon.
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Smagorinsky, P. (2011). The Culture of School and How it Shapes Literacy Learning. In: Smagorinsky, P. (eds) Vygotsky and Literacy Research. Practice of Research Method, vol 2. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-696-0_4
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