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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 .
Francis Wayland Parker (October 9, 1837 – March 2, 1902) was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral. John Dewey called him the "father of progressive education
Neill was known in British education circles by the 1920s and was "probably Britain's first educational celebrity" in the 1930s, though he was not driven by his reception. Journal reviews called Neill "the most popular writer on education today" and said of his works, "Nearly all the more alive and up-to-date teachers in Britain have read and ...
Titone, Renzo (1962). "Review of The Transformation of the School. Progressivism in American Education 1876-1957". International Review of Education. 8 (3/4): 473– 475. ISSN 0020-8566. JSTOR 3441987. Weiss, Robert M. (1962). "Review of The Transformation of the School, Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957". History of Education ...
George Sylvester Counts (December 9, 1889 – November 10, 1974) was an American educator and influential education theorist.. An early proponent of the progressive education movement of John Dewey, Counts became its leading critic affiliated with the school of Social reconstructionism in education.
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
Theorists like John Dewey, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, whose collective work focused on how students learn, have informed the move to student-centered learning.Dewey was an advocate for progressive education, and he believed that learning is a social and experiential process by making learning an active process as children learn by doing.
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 ]