Theodore Michael Christou

Progressive Rhetoric and Curriculum

Contested Visions of Public Education in Interwar Ontario

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Produktbeschreibung

Progressive Rhetoric: Imagining Schools for a Modern Age in Interwar Ontario considers the ways that progressivist ideas and rhetoric shaped early curriculum and structural changes to Ontario's public schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780367281663
• ISBN-10: 036728166X
• Artikelnr.: 56528503

Autorenporträt

Theodore Michael Christou is an Associate Professor of Social Studies and History Education in the Faculty of Education at Queens University, Ontario with a cross-appointment to the Department of History.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Who is Not a Progressive Reformer, Anyway?
Chapter 1: Ontario in the Interwar Period: Progressive Education for a
Progressive Age
Chapter 2: Child Study as an Aspect of Progressive Education: Concentrating
on the Individual Student
Chapter 3: Social Efficiency and Social Change: Schools, Workplaces, and
Alignment with the World to Come
Chapter 4: Social Meliorism and Educational Progress: Making the World a
Better Place through Schooling
Chapter 5: A Case Study in Educational Reform: Duncan McArthur,
Progressivist
Chapter 6: Ontario in the 21st Century: Progressive Educational Rhetoric,
Redux
Afterword: A Path Revisited, and Historical Research in Education Reviewed