Progressive Education : Revisioning and Reframing Ontario's Public Schools, 1919-1942 /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christou, Theodore Michael, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public schools.
Progressive education.
EDUCATION > Reference.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Essays.
EDUCATION > History.
Écoles publiques > Ontario > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Éducation progressive > Ontario > Histoire.
Public schools > Ontario > History > 20th century.
Progressive education > Ontario > History.
Ontario.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 4 Progressive as Individualized Instruction: Critiques of ContentDriven Learning
  • 5 Progressive as Contemporary: Critiques of Learning Correlating Schools and Society
  • 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.

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