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A Brief History of Progressive Education

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  1. Introduction: Why Study Progressive Education? (Preview Content)
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  2. Lesson 1: Progressive Education and the Progressive Movement (Preview Content)
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  3. Discussion 1: How Did Classical Educators Respond? (Preview Content)
  4. Lesson 2: Education in America before Progressive Education
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  5. Discussion 2: The Influence of Massachusetts in Educational History
  6. Lesson 3: Just What is Progressive Education?
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  7. Discussion 3: Mental Testing & the Core Beliefs of Progressive Ed.
  8. Lesson 4: Who Was John Dewey?
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  9. Discussion 4: The Complexity and Contradictions of John Dewey
  10. Lesson 5: The Progressive Revolution in American Education
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  11. Lesson 6: The Administrative Progressives
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  12. Discussion 6: What Should the Role of Efficiency Be in Education?
  13. Lesson 7: The Pedagogical Progressives
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  14. Discussion 7: Persisting Classical Elements in Progressive Educators
  15. Lesson 8: The Social Progressives
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  16. Discussion 8: Is Child-Centered Education Appropriate in Some Ways?
  17. Lesson 9: The "End" of Progressive Education
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  18. Discussion 9: The Changing Face and Names for Progressive Education
  19. Lesson 10: The Continuation of Progressive Education
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  20. Discussion 10: Big Schools, Tracking & Pedagogy vs Subject Expertise
  21. Lesson 11: Deepening our Understanding of Progressive Education
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  22. Discussion 11: What is Media Doing to Our Concepts of Education?
  23. Lesson 12: Taking the Long View of Progressive and Classical Education
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  24. Discussion 12: What Does It Mean to Take the Long View?
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    End of Course Test: A Brief History of Progressive Education
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Introduction: Why Study Progressive Education? (Preview Content)

The following lecture series seeks to elucidate the core educational commitments of the contemporary cultural atmosphere in Western Civilization. Dr. Edwards concentrates on the historical context of the progressive education movement and traces out the implication of this movement for our contemporary understanding of school and education. Approach the lecture series in the intellectual spirit of the great philosophers of Western Civilization, who dared to ask the “big” questions regarding the meaning of education, culture, human being, and even existence itself!

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