Progressivism's Aesthetic Education

Progressivism's Aesthetic Education
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9783319900445
ISBN-13 : 3319900447
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Progressivism's Aesthetic Education by : Jesse Raber

During the Progressive Era in the United States, as teaching became professionalized and compulsory attendance laws were passed, the public school emerged as a cultural authority. What did accepting this authority mean for Americans’ conception of self-government and their freedom of thought? And what did it mean for the role of artists and intellectuals within democratic society? Jesse Raber argues that the bildungsroman negotiated this tension between democratic autonomy and cultural authority, reprising an old role for the genre in a new social and intellectual context. Considering novels by Abraham Cahan, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside the educational thought of John Dewey, the Montessorians, the American Herbartians, and the social efficiency educators, Raber traces the development of an aesthetics of social action. Richly sourced and vividly narrated, this book is a creative intervention in the fields of literary criticism, pragmatic philosophy, aesthetic theory, and the history of education.

Progressive Museum Practice

Progressive Museum Practice
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781315421841
ISBN-13 : 1315421844
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Progressive Museum Practice by : George E Hein

George E. Hein explores the impact on current museum theory and practice of early 20th-century educational reformer John Dewey’s philosophy, covering philosophies that shaped today’s best practices.

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781317354383
ISBN-13 : 1317354389
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan by : Yoko Yamasaki

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day. Drawing on evidence of both cultural encounters and internal drivers for progressivism and reform, this book re-evaluates the history of Japanese education to help inform ongoing and future debates about education policy and practice worldwide. With contributions from Japanese scholars specialising in the history and philosophy of education and curriculum studies, chapters consider key collaborative improvements to teacher education, as well as group learning, ‘life education’, the creative arts and writing, and education for girls and women. The book examines Western influences, including John Dewey, Carleton Washburne and A. S. Neill, as well as Japan’s own progressive exports, such as holistic Zenjin education, Children’s Villages and Lesson Study, highlighting cultural encounters and progressive initiatives at both transnational and national levels. The chapters reflect on historical and political background, motivations, influences and the impact of Japanese progressive education. They also stimulate, through argument and critical discussion, a continuing discourse concerning principles, policy, politics and practices of education in an increasingly globalised society. A rigorous and critical study of the history of progressive education in Japan, this book will interest an international readership of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of progressive education, comparative education, social and cultural history, history of education, Japanese studies, curriculum studies, and the history of childhood.

School Was Our Life

School Was Our Life
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9780253033031
ISBN-13 : 0253033039
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis School Was Our Life by : Jane Roland Martin

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Remembering Little Red -- 2 Child-Friendly Schools -- 3 The "We've Been There andDone It" Fantasy -- 4 Close Encounters of anEducational Kind -- 5 Buried Treasure -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

The Knowledge Deficit

The Knowledge Deficit
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9780547346960
ISBN-13 : 0547346964
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The Knowledge Deficit by : E. D. Hirsch

The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are teaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledge needed for the more complex and essential skill of reading comprehension. Hirsch corrects popular misconceptions about hot issues in education, such as standardized testing, and takes to task educators' claims that they are powerless to overcome class differences. Ultimately, this essential book gives parents and teachers specific tools for enhancing children's abilities to fully understand what they read.

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9781317354376
ISBN-13 : 1317354370
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan by : Yoko Yamasaki

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day. Drawing on evidence of both cultural encounters and internal drivers for progressivism and reform, this book re-evaluates the history of Japanese education to help inform ongoing and future debates about education policy and practice worldwide. With contributions from Japanese scholars specialising in the history and philosophy of education and curriculum studies, chapters consider key collaborative improvements to teacher education, as well as group learning, ‘life education’, the creative arts and writing, and education for girls and women. The book examines Western influences, including John Dewey, Carleton Washburne and A. S. Neill, as well as Japan’s own progressive exports, such as holistic Zenjin education, Children’s Villages and Lesson Study, highlighting cultural encounters and progressive initiatives at both transnational and national levels. The chapters reflect on historical and political background, motivations, influences and the impact of Japanese progressive education. They also stimulate, through argument and critical discussion, a continuing discourse concerning principles, policy, politics and practices of education in an increasingly globalised society. A rigorous and critical study of the history of progressive education in Japan, this book will interest an international readership of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of progressive education, comparative education, social and cultural history, history of education, Japanese studies, curriculum studies, and the history of childhood.

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 9781317133186
ISBN-13 : 1317133188
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities by : Donald Leslie Johnson

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and space, its architectural landscape. This book analyzes Wright's innovative, profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put into practice. It outlines the design methodology that he applied to domestic and non-domestic buildings and presents reasons for the recognition of two Wright Styles and a Wright School. The book also studies how his design method was applied to city planning and implications of historical and theoretical contexts of the period that surely influenced all of Wright's community and city planning.

New Learning

New Learning
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9781107644281
ISBN-13 : 1107644283
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis New Learning by : Mary Kalantzis

Fully updated and revised, the second edition of New Learning explores the contemporary debates and challenges in education and considers how schools can prepare their students for the future. New Learning, Second Edition is an inspiring and comprehensive resource for pre-service and in-service teachers alike.

Democracy and Education

Democracy and Education
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015061013978
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Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Democracy and Education by : John Dewey

. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.

An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse

An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780190061289
ISBN-13 : 0190061286
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse by : Ellen Winner

"In 1982 I travelled to northern Italy to observe the preschools in the city of Reggio Emilia. I made more visits over the years, including my last visit in 2020. I wanted to understand the teaching methods that allowed typical children to make art that looked so much more advanced that that seen in American preschools. The first seeds of this book were planted as I observed the art that Reggio children were able to create"--