This paper examines the emergence of black progressive organizations and their relationship to public black colleges. Amid violent disfranchisement in the early 1900s, black education activists collaborated with other educators to host conferences, develop programs, and mobilize delegations on broader issues of concern to black Americans,…

This paper revisits "Democracy and Education" with the purpose of recuperating Dewey's understanding of the nature and importance of "discipline" and conforming education to the "interest of the child," two parts of Dewey's work (and therefore of progressive education) widely misunderstood by both Dewey's critics and…

With this project, we seek to add historical and philosophical depth to the theoretical foundations for critical service learning and offer a philosophical framework that allows for a critical pedagogy of place. Lewis Mumford's Regional Survey is offered as a means to augment Deweyan democratic education. Regional Survey positions students out in…

In light of the demand to make race a central part of our teaching and to incorporate the study and discussion of race into our systems of education, this paper examines the origins of race-based curriculum found in institutions of higher learning that influence social studies teaching in the public schools. More specifically, this research…

In this paper, the author first cites passages that highlight the key developments and dilemmas of teacher education in Ghana in the 1960s, when the new nation resolved to prepare its largely untrained teaching force in "progressive" methods. Across the decade--and across subject areas--Ghana conducted in-service teacher training to…

This paper proposes a reconsideration of John Dewey's theory of experience with particular emphasis on his notion of situational interactions. The paper asks what problems are created by a theory of experience that sees situations as a construction of only two worlds, internal and external, and carefully considers these issues. It first states…

The narrative conventions of romance which flourish in Lawrence Cremin's "Transformation of the School" show that stylization does occur in historical writings. People often talk about stylization in visual forms; but stylization in the verbal arts is relatively undefined. To structure his recounting of the progressive story, Cremin drew…

This paper traces the professional life of the educator Booker T. Washington. It shows that although he was active at Tuskegee Institute during the years of the development of the progressive education movement, he is virtually ignored in progressive education's body of literature. The paper describes the "project method" which was a way…

The meaning of instructional design is explored as it relates to four ideological aims of education: The Cultural Transmission; The Romantic; The Progressive; and The Critical. Definitions of "instructional design" and "ideology" are first presented, and the four ideologies are briefly described. A heuristic (in matrix format)…

This paper deals with some of the characteristics of good open education as espoused by its proponents. It then discusses the three types of relational patterns which are exhibited by children in the classroom. According to the author, these three relational patterns demonstrate that the ability to handle an open classroom situation varies…

This paper examines the works of Ellsworth Collings, professor at the University of Oklahoma beginning in 1922 and Dean of the School of Education beginning in 1926. Educators remember Collings for his 1923 book, "An Experiment With a Project Curriculum," which described the effectiveness of certain progressive principles when employed…

Ways in which leading child-centered progressives have transformed Dewey's educational philosophy into a self-perpetuating false ideology of education are examined in this paper, which focuses on how Dewey's principles of "interaction" and "community" were distorted in defining "educative experiences." The…

The educational philosophy of John Dewey converted a number of educators who became his disciples. This paper focuses on four female educators who followed Dewey's teachings in schools in the U.S. South and some other Southern Progressive schools based on Dewey's principles. Dewey's philosophy of a child-centered education rooted in a school…

This document analyzes and evaluates dilemmas and difficulties in developing/implementing "progressive television," a kind of television that seeks to transgress the boundaries of dominant (mainstream) television by proposing a new constellation of television production and consumption. The ideal is described as a television that tries…

The career of Stuart Appleton Courtis in the growth of testing and educational measurement parallels the development of progressive education in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1909 he developed the standardized Courtis Arithmetic Test, Series A, the first objective test used in any city public schools. Continuing his work in testing,…