Theodore Michael Christou

Progressive Education

Revisioning and Reframing Ontario's Public Schools, 1919-1942

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781487544799
• ISBN-10: 1487544790
• Artikelnr.: 63626629

Autorenporträt

By Theodore Michael Christou

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Was Progressive Education?
1 Ontario’s Educational Context in the Interwar Period
2 Approaching Progressive Education
3 Progressive as Active Learning: Critiques of Rote Scholarship in School
* Child Study and Developmental Psychology
* Social Efficiency and Adjustment to Industry
* Social Meliorism and Engagement with Social Ills
4 Progressive as Individualized Instruction: Critiques of Content-Driven
Learning
* Child Study and Developmental Psychology
* Social Efficiency and Adjustment to Industry
* Social Meliorism and Engagement with Social Ills
5 Progressive as Contemporary: Critiques of Learning Correlating Schools
and Society
* Child Study and Developmental Psychology
* Social Efficiency and Adjustment to Industry
* Social Meliorism and Engagement with Social Ills
6 Humanists as the Foil to Progressivists: Resistance to Progressivist
Reforms in Ontario
7 Continuities and Change: Reforming the Curriculum and the War’s Impact on
Progressivist Rhetoric, 1937–1942
Conclusion: Progressive in a Parallel Way
Appendices
Appendix A. Public School Enrolments in Ontario
Appendix B. Composition of the Department of Education
Appendix C. Circulation Statistics for Source Journals
Notes
References
Index