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The company was founded in 1938 by William Rufus Scott (1911–1997), [1] who was assisted by his wife Ethel McCullough Scott, and her brother, John C. McCullough. [1]With small children of their own, the Scotts had connections to the Bureau of Educational Experiments (later known as the Bank Street College of Education), which was promoting a new approach to children's education and ...
The Bank Street School for Children is a private coed preschool, elementary school, and middle school within the Bank Street College of Education. [13] [14] The school includes children in nursery through eighth grade, [14] split into three divisions: the lower school, for nursery through first grade; the middle school, for second through fourth grades; and the upper school, for fifth through ...
The term banking model of education was first used by Paulo Freire in his highly influential book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. [1] [2] Freire describes this form of education as "fundamentally narrative (in) character" [3]: 57 with the teacher as the subject (that is, the active participant) and the students as passive objects.
This ambiguity is also reflected on the level of the philosophy of education, which encompasses the study of the philosophical presuppositions and issues both of education as a process and as a discipline. [10] Many works in the philosophy of education focus explicitly or implicitly on the education happening in schools.
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 ...
Experiential education is a philosophy of education that describes the process that occurs between a teacher and student that infuses direct experience with the learning environment and content. This concept is distinct from experiential learning, however experiential learning is a subfield and operates under the methodologies associated with ...
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From 1962 until retirement in 1983, Peters was Professor of the Philosophy of Education at the Institute of Education (founded 1947) University of London. In 1971 he was Dean of the Institute. Under his guidance the Institute grew fast and considerably influenced the development of the philosophy of education in England.