Over the course of the twentieth century, North American public school curricula moved away from the classics and the humanities, and towards ‘progressive’ subjects such as health and social studies. This book delves into how progressivist thinking transformed the rhetoric and the structure of schooling during the first half of the twentieth century, with echoes that reverberate strongly today, and investigates historical meanings of progressive education. Theodore Michael Christou closely examines the case of interwar Ontario, where the entire landscape of public education, including curricula and avenues to post-secondary study, were radically transformed over just twenty years. Christou contextualizes this reformist thinking in light of a social, political, and economic climate of change, which seemed to demand schools that could actively relate learning to the real world. Through its examination of educational journals published throughout the interwar period and previously unexplored archival sources, this book illuminates how the present structure of curricula and schooling were achieved.
... The Earth School ———: East Village Community School ———: Elizabeth Irwin High School ———: Ella Baker School *———: Ethical Culture Fieldston School ———: Freebrook Academy ———: Harlem Link Charter School *———: Independence School, ...
Critical Curriculum Leadership will appeal to the many educational leadership scholars and practitioners who are interested in developing effective and socially just curricula in their schools and districts as well as curriculum scholars ...
Over a century ago, American educator Caroline Pratt created an innovative school that fosters creativity and independent thought by asking the provocative question: “Was it unreasonable to try to fit the school to the child, rather than ...
For more than one hundred years, the United States has been the scene of academic warfare between traditional and progressive educators. During most of our nation's history, many Americans have...
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1: Progressive Education: A Definition 2: Old Wine, New Bottles 3: Progressive Schools in the 1930s 4: Progressive Education in the 1930s: The Local Perspective5: Postwar Education: The ...
Building on cutting-edge scholarship, this is the first major study to trace the racial worldviews of key progressive thinkers, such as Colonel Francis W. Parker, John Dewey, Charles Judd, William Bagley, and many others.
This book provides a provocative but carefully argued addition to the theory and practice of education in developing countries.
... I. James Quillen, Robert R. Smith Francis A. Ianni, Richard I. Miller Louis S. Levine, Frances R. Link, Juliet Saunders C. Taylor Whittier, Leslee Bishop Alvin Loving, Robert R. Smith, Staten Webster Arthur G. Wirth, Joann Boydston, ...
Building on cutting-edge scholarship, this is the first major study to trace the racial worldviews of key progressive thinkers, such as Colonel Francis W. Parker, John Dewey, Charles Judd, William Bagley, and many others.
Martin frames these stories from the former students "tell it like it was" point of view with philosophical commentary, bringing to light the underpinnings of the kind of progressive education employed at Little Red and commenting ...