Oswego Movement

The Oswego Movement was a movement in American education in the late 19th century built on the teaching methods of the Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Edward Austin Sheldon introduced the approach at the Oswego Primary Teachers Training School, now the State University of New York at Oswego. Sheldon, unhappy with the memorization heavy teaching common in his day, developed object teaching, which used models and blocks to teach young children, and after observing Londons Home and Colonial Training Institution, he hired the British educator Margaret E. M. Jones to refine the program. The movement moved elementary teaching away from rote memorization toward child centered learning built on concrete experience and the use of the senses, and it helped establish formal teacher training and lesson planning while also giving women a larger role in education and in the wider womens rights movement of the time. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/