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Joshua Forstenzer – Educational Theory, 2025
How should Deweyan educators teach their students about engaging in efforts to bring about social change in a political context marked by polarization, power differentials, and oppression? In this article, Joshua Forstenzer argues that Deweyan educators must encourage their students to engage in pluralistic and creative experiments rather than…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Teaching Methods, Social Change, Power Structure
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Robert L. Hampel – Schools: Studies in Education, 2024
Daniel J. Boorstin was a distinguished historian at the University of Chicago from 1944 to 1969; later he served as librarian of Congress. A prolific author throughout his 89 years, Boorstin saved several unpublished manuscripts. His cogent observations on college lectures are resurrected here. For Boorstin, the widespread definition of great…
Descriptors: Barriers, Progressive Education, Authors, College Faculty
Heidi Ruth Topley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative descriptive study explored how progressive teachers navigate the tensions between their beliefs and teaching practices while teaching in high-stakes accountability in the U.S. The target population was progressive education teachers currently working in progressive programs in America. The theoretical foundation was Fransson and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Progressive Education, Educational Practices
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Nicholas Tate – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
Spain's greatest modern philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), wrote about many aspects of education including its aims; the education of children, nations, and elites; types of pedagogy; the reform of the university; and the challenges facing educators in an era of "triumphant plebeianism." The article examines all aspects of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Progressive Education, Teaching Methods
Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann Ed.; Marc Fabian Buck Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
The second of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic continues to gather international perspectives to critically assess how Waldorf education has been perceived and discussed in both public and academic arenas. Both books thereby challenge the historic concept of Waldorf education as an international movement championing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reputation, Progressive Education, Educational Trends
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Jane McDonnell – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
Just over a decade on from a spike of interest in Jacques Rancière's writing within educational philosophy and theory, I revisit his interventions on democracy and education to make the case for (re)engaging with Rancière's writing "now" to address important questions about contemporary education policy, the role of schools in democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Democracy, Intervention, Educational Philosophy
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Stephanie C. Sanders-Smith; Jadyn Laixely; Giselle Martinez Negrette; Tanya Espinosa Cordoba – Educational Review, 2025
This study explores how early childhood teachers in a progressive private school in the Midwest adapted to changes resulting from the closing of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing Bourdieu's notions of habitus, field, and illusio, we examine how educators in the school approached the move to distance learning during the early months…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Early Childhood Teachers, Private Schools
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Thomas Walsh; Tom O’Donoghue – History of Education Quarterly, 2025
For decades, transnational knowledge circulation in relation to schooling in Ireland has been a neglected area of study among historians. This paper provides new insights through a transnational lens on primary, secondary, and vocational curriculum developments in the first decade following the advent of national independence in the country in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Policy, Catholics
Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann Ed.; Marc Fabian Buck Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
The first of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic, this volume gathers international perspectives to critically assess how Waldorf education has been perceived and discussed in both public and academic arenas. The book thereby challenges the historical concept of Waldorf education as an international movement championing…
Descriptors: Reputation, Educational History, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy
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Stanton Wortham; Clara Shim; Deoksoon Kim; Dennis Shirley – Journal of Educational Change, 2024
Korea is recognized around the world for its performance on international educational assessments and the economic development its educational system has facilitated. However, there is also a deficit in well-being among young Koreans. In response, Korean educators have developed alternative, whole person approaches. This article reports a study of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Well Being, Competition, Foreign Countries
Jessica Bobbins – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores the experiences of teaching and learning in a progressive school. In this study, I explored three primary research questions: a) How do efforts to maintain a progressive educational approach to teaching and learning play out in the experiences of teachers and administrators? b) How does test-based reform affect or challenge…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Progressive Education, Educational Experience, Learning Processes
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Maia Hetaraka – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
There is much to celebrate about the liberal-progressive approach championed by New Zealand, which continues to be a prized feature of New Zealand education. Many liberal-progressive practices developed in New Zealand and contextualised for New Zealand students that sought to expand and enrich education were borrowed from Native Schools, Maori…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Progressive Education
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John Lyons; Paul Tarc – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
Moving beyond both a neoliberal as well as a 'heroic' conception of how the International Baccalaureate (IB) might 'make a better world', this paper focuses on the transformative potentiality of IBDP classroom pedagogy from the perspective of an experienced and critically minded educator, whose praxis has evolved across more than three decades of…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Classroom Environment
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Brett Rolfe – History of Education Review, 2024
Purpose: This paper explores the context within which experimental, pedagogically progressive schools were established in Australia during the first decades of the 20th century. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents a case study of the establishment of Rosbercon Girls' Grammar School. It draws on educator accounts, archival documents and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Progressive Education, Elementary School Teachers
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Stephanie C. Sanders-Smith; Tanya Espinosa Cordoba; Jadyn Laixely; Giselle Martinez Negrette – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2024
This is a study of progressive education in the context of virtual preschool. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged teachers globally to adapt to new e-learning environments while finding creative solutions to support child engagement and learning. In this case study, we examined a preschool program in a progressive and multilingual Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Electronic Learning, Instruction, COVID-19
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