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  2. Progressive education - Wikipedia

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    Progressive education, or educational progressivism, is a pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and has persisted in various forms to the present. In Europe, progressive education took the form of the New Education Movement .

  3. Caroline Pratt (educator) - Wikipedia

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    Caroline Pratt (May 13, 1867 – June 6, 1954 [1]) was an American social thinker and progressive educational reformer whose ideas were influential in educational reform, policy, and practice. [ 2 ]

  4. Philosophy of education - Wikipedia

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    He was a major figure in the progressive education movement of the early 20th century. Kilpatrick developed the Project Method for early childhood education, which was a form of Progressive Education organized curriculum and classroom activities around a subject's central theme. He believed that the role of a teacher should be that of a "guide ...

  5. Eight-Year Study - Wikipedia

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    Based on the criticism that American secondary education curriculum had been designed to meet the needs of college admissions rather than those of students, the Progressive Education Association sponsored an eight-year study between 1933 and 1941 to determine whether young adults could excel in college if college admission requirements were revoked. [1]

  6. Gary Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling, (Kennikat Press, 1979), online book review; Cremin, Lawrence A. The transformation of the school: progressivism in American education, 1896–1957 (Knopf, 1961), pp. 153-160. Dewey, John, and Evelyn Dewey. Schools of To-morrow (1915), pp 175-204 and 251-268. online

  7. Curriculum development - Wikipedia

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    A humanistic curriculum is a curriculum based on intercultural education that allows for the plurality of society while striving to ensure a balance between pluralism and universal values. In terms of policy, this view sees curriculum frameworks as tools to bridge broad educational goals and the processes to reach them.

  8. Category:Progressive education - Wikipedia

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  9. Quincy Method - Wikipedia

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    Parker, a pioneer of the progressive school movement, rejected the traditional rigid school routine, exemplified by rote learning and the spelling-book method, and even stated that the spelling book should be burned, [3] although he did favor oral spelling. Emphasis was instead placed on social skills and self-expression through cultural ...