Progressive education has many definitions. One understanding is that it focuses more upon the child’s learning, than upon curriculum content or a teacher’s pedagogy. Two main approaches of progressive education are ‘child-centred’ education - which aims to give children the freedom to develop naturally in a democratic environment, and, ‘social-reconstructionism’ - which focuses on a curriculum highlighting social reform as the aim of education.
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Progressive Education
- Last Updated Oct 24, 2014
A resource guide helping you to locate archive material related to progressive education
Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save Schools by
[PRINT] American education is in crisis. While we look to Finland or South Korea for models of success, progressive education has been forging creative thinkers in the United States for over one hundred years. The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little—before being diagnosed with lethal cancer—went on a national tour of progressive schools to bring their combined educational knowledge together in this, his life’s work. As Little and journalist Katherine Ellison show, progressive educators help children develop twenty-first-century skills by emphasizing critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration. Progressive educators teach across disciplines, design lessons inspired by the students’ interests, and use hands-on learning. Little and Ellison introduce us to students galvanized by real-world learning experiences such as creating businesses to sell student-made goods for charity, and they describe how progressive teachers work to awaken youths’ sense of social justice, engaging them with issues in their community and beyond.
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Heritage by
[PRINT] "Kieran Egan is professor of education at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Reforming Schools:Working Within A Progressive Tradition by
Portrays the progressive school reform work of the Harmony Education Center over a 12-year period.