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Progressive Education: Revisioning and Reframing Ontario's Public Schools, 1919–1942 (2013) Hughes, John Patrick. "Theory into practice in Australian progressive education: the Enmore Activity School." History of Education Review 44#1 (2015). Keskin, Yusuf. "Progressive Education in Turkey: Reports of John Dewey and his Successors."
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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 ...
John Dewey, an academic philosopher of education, inspired Wirt when Wirt was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. In turn Dewey and his disciples praised the Gary Plan. [ 3 ] In 1907, Wirt became superintendent of schools in the newly planned city of Gary, Indiana , which was built by U.S. Steel corporation.
Dewey does not put traditional vs. progressive education against each other; instead, he is critical of teaching methods that are "static" [3] and not incorporating enough experiential learning, which he notes young learners are more accustomed to. In addition, Dewey is critical of the old structure and its organization of educational philosophy.
Student-directed teaching is a teaching technology that aims to give the student greater control, ownership, and accountability over his or her own education. Developed to counter institutionalized, mass, schooling, student-directed teaching allows students to make their own choices while they learn in order to make education much more meaningful, relevant, and effective.
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The project method is a medium of instruction which was introduced during the 18th century into the schools of architecture and engineering in Europe when graduating students had to apply the skills and knowledge they had learned in the course of their studies to problems they had to solve as practicians of their trade, for example, designing a monument, building a steam engine. [1]