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How did this week’s research help me come to my final research question?

From the time I read the primary resource, I have strong interest in the education function that Owen using in his new community. As a finding father of kindergarten, Owen’s thinking is provocative and profound in his generation and has lots of influence to the later utopia’s project. So i decided to research about Owen’s education in his new Harmony and new Lanark in the primary resource.

With the help Liberian, I found out actually a really useful primary resource about Owen’s self -bibliography:  The Life of Robert Owen, written by himself, with selections from his writings and correspondence.  In this bibliography illustrated the way how Owen organized his school and set up his career rules. It provided really useful first hand information to my topic: how he came out of those ideas and how those ideas contribute to his ideal society. But it is only from Owen’s side. Then i found out my another secondary resource about comparison between the new Harmony and lanark.  it draw conclusion about how Owen’s new world thinking fall from different ways in society or Education. I think i am going to quoting it in my paper to be one of the argue point. Also in this secondary resource, it also talks about how Owen influenced future Utopia thinker like karl Marx. So from those resources I searched, I decided to write my paper: How did Owen’s new community’s education reflect utopia thinking.