Hilda Taba
Hilda Taba (7 December 1902 in
Kooraste,
Governorate of Livonia – 6 July 1967 in
San Francisco,
California) was an architect, a curriculum theorist, a curriculum reformer, and a teacher educator. Taba was born in the small village of
Kooraste,
Estonia. Her mother's name was Liisa Leht, and her father was a schoolmaster whose name was Robert Taba. Hilda Taba began her education at the
Kanepi Parish School. She then attended the
Võru’s Girls’ Grammar School and earned her undergraduate degree in English and Philosophy at the
University of Tartu. When Taba was given the opportunity to attend
Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, she earned her master's degree. Following the completion of her degree at Bryn Mawr College, she attended Teachers College at
Columbia University. She applied for a job at the University of Tartu but was turned down because she was female, so she became curriculum director at the
Dalton School in New York City. In 1951, Taba accepted an invitation to become a professor at San Francisco State College, now known as [http://www.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University].
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