Progressive education: a critical introduction
How and why we should educate children has always been a central concern for governments around the world, and there have long been those who have opposed orthodoxy, challenged perception and called for a radicalization of youth. Progressive Education draws together Continental Romantics, Utopian dreamers, radical feminists, pioneering psychologists and social agitators to explore the history of the progressive education movement.
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- Full title :Progressive education : a critical introduction / John Howlett.
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How and why we should educate children has always been a central concern for governments around the world, and there have long been those who have opposed orthodoxy, challenged perception and called for a radicalization of youth. Progressive Education draws together Continental Romantics, Utopian dreamers, radical feminists, pioneering psychologists and social agitators to explore the history of the progressive education movement.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:306 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781441141729, 1441141723, 9781441177582, 1441177582, 9781441110510, 1441110518, 9780826440914, 0826440916
- oclc:ocn848267154
- LC Classification:LB1027.3
- Dewey Decimal:371.3
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Pioneering Notions and Practices -- Romanticism -- Gender -- Psychology -- Democracy: The new education fellowship -- Democracy: Parker, Dewey and the American Tradition -- Social reform -- Critical pedagogy -- Conclusion: Methodological reflections.
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