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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. William Heard Kilpatrick - Wikipedia

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    In 1907-1909 Kilpatrick was a student in Teachers College at Columbia University (New York City), where he took courses in history of education under Paul Monroe [2] (1869-1947), philosophy of education under John Angus MacVannel [3] (1871-1915), psychology under Edward Lee Thorndike [4] (1874-1949), and philosophy under Frederick James Eugene ...

  4. A. S. Neill - Wikipedia

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    In Neill's philosophy, the goal was maintenance of happiness through avoidance of repressive habits from society. [40] Despite Neill's common citation as a leader within progressive education, his ideas were considerably more radical, and he was called an extremist by other radicals. [38]

  5. Progressivism - Wikipedia

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    Progressivism is a left-leaning political philosophy and reform movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology. [1]

  6. Francis Wayland Parker - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. 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 ]

  8. Efficiency movement - Wikipedia

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    Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement 1890–1920 (1959). Haber, Samuel. Efficiency and Uplift: Scientific Management in the Progressive Era, 1890–1920 (1964) Hawley, Ellis W. "Herbert Hoover, the Commerce Secretariat, and the vision of the 'Associative State'."

  9. Philosophy of education - Wikipedia

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    Educational progressivism is the belief that education must be based on the principle that humans are social animals who learn best in real-life activities with other people. Progressivists, like proponents of most educational theories, claim to rely on the best available scientific theories of learning.