Progressive education, or educational progressivism, is a pedagogical movement that began in the late nineteenth century and persists in various forms today. It organizes learning around hands-on projects and the child's own interests rather than rote transmission of facts, treating understanding and action, not memorized knowledge, as the goal of instruction. John Dewey was among its most influential theorists, holding that education is fundamentally a social process through which the individual comes to participate in the wider community. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Most Effective ForIts own theorists hold it suits learning by doing, hands-on projects aimed at understanding and action rather than rote recall of facts, and self-directed inquiry grounded in a learner's own interests; the claim rests on the movement's own account of what such motivation achieves. 1 Central QuestionShould a school organize its teaching around a child's own interests and firsthand experience, using intrinsic motivation, rather than around a fixed body of facts delivered for extrinsic rewards such as grades? 1 Progressivism (education)
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Social Reconstructionism's own live entity-description: one of the traditional foursome of American educational philosophies alongside this atlas's own Essentialism, Perennialism and Progressivism entries.
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Progressive education, or educational progressivism, is a pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and has persisted in various forms to the present.
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Traditional education uses extrinsic motivation, such as grades and prizes. Progressive education is more likely to use intrinsic motivation, basing activities on the interests of the child.
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understanding and action as the goals of learning as opposed to rote knowledge
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Education according to John Dewey is the 'participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race' (Dewey, 1897, para. 1).
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A well-known public intellectual, he was a major voice of progressive education and liberalism.
William Heard Kilpatrick (Wikipedia)
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Kilpatrick was a major figure in the progressive education movement of the early 20th century.
Helen Parkhurst (Wikipedia)
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Parkhurst took her cues from developmental psychologist Jean Piaget and education reformers such as John Dewey and Horace Mann, producing a progressive education philosophy emphasizing the development of the "whole child".
Project method (Wikipedia)
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His device is child-centered and based in progressive education.
Challenge-based learning (Wikipedia)
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Challenge-based learning builds on the foundation of experiential learning, leans heavily on the wisdom of a long history of progressive education, shares many of the goals of service learning, and the activism of critical pedagogy.
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