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  2. Progressive education - Wikipedia

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    Progressive education can be traced back to the works of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, both of whom are known as forerunners of ideas that would be developed by theorists such as John Dewey. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists , Locke believed that "truth and knowledge… arise out of observation and experience rather ...

  3. Experience and Education (book) - Wikipedia

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    Experience and Education opens by saying that humans organize thoughts, and ideas as "either-ors" and argues that this is mirrored in educational philosophy, namely in what Dewey labels as traditional vs. progressive education. [2] Dewey conceptualizes education as being focused on bodies of information and skills that are passed from one ...

  4. Curriculum theory - Wikipedia

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    The progressive reform movement began in the late 1870s with the work of Colonel Francis Parker, but is most identified with John Dewey, and also John Mayer Rice and Lester Frank Ward. Dewey's 1899 book The School and Society is often credited with starting the movement. [ 15 ]

  5. John Dewey - Wikipedia

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    John Dewey (/ ˈ d uː i /; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer.He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

  6. Experiential education - Wikipedia

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    John Dewey was the most famous proponent of hands-on learning or experiential education, [2] which was discussed in his book Experience and Education, published in 1938. It expressed his ideas about curriculum theory in the context of historical debates about school organization and the need to have experience as a fundamental aspect.

  7. The School and Society - Wikipedia

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    Here Dewey proposes a student-centered curriculum. Authentic learning is valued, and must be centered on the natural interests of children: their desire to communicate with others, to build things, to inquire about things, and to express themselves artistically. Dewey begins by talking about the physical bias of the classroom.

  8. Democracy and Education - Wikipedia

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    Dewey's ideas were never broadly and deeply integrated into the practices of American public schools, though some of his values and terms were widespread. [2] In the post-Cold War period, however, progressive education had reemerged in many school reform and education theory circles as a thriving field of inquiry learning and inquiry-based science.

  9. My Pedagogic Creed - Wikipedia

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    "My Pedagogic Creed" is an article written by John Dewey and published in School Journal in 1897. [1] The article is broken into five sections, with each paragraph beginning "I believe." It has been referenced over 4100 times, and continues to be referenced, as a testament to the lasting impact of the ar