Theodore Michael Christou

Progressive Education (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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.

ChristouTheodore Michael :

Theodore Michael Christou is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442662759
• Artikelnr.: 48945757

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