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Progressive Education : Revisioning and Reframing Ontario's Public Schools, 1919-1942 / Theodore Michael Christou.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christou, Theodore Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Progressive education--Ontario--History.
- Progressive education.
- Public schools--Ontario--History--20th century.
- Public schools.
- Ontario.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through its examination of educational journals published throughout the interwar period and previously unexplored archival sources, this book illuminates how the present structure of curricula and schooling were achieved.
- Contents:
- Introduction: What Was Progressive Education?
- 1 Ontario's Educational Context in the Interwar Period
- 2 Approaching Progressive Education
- 3 Progressive as Active Learning: Critiques of Rote Scholarship in School
- 4 Progressive as Individualized Instruction: Critiques of ContentDriven Learning
- 5 Progressive as Contemporary: Critiques of Learning Correlating Schools and Society
- 6 Humanists as the Foil to Progressivists: Resistance to Progressivist Reforms in Ontario
- 7 Continuities and Change: Reforming the Curriculum and the War's Impact on Progressivist Rhetoric, 1937-1942
- Conclusion: Progressive in a Parallel Way.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9781442662766
- 144266276X
- 9781442662759
- 1442662751
- OCLC:
- 818017325
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