English Primary Education and the Progressives, 1914-1939

ISBN-13: 9780415761802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str.

R. J. W. Selleck

Opis

Originally published 1972.This book concerns the progressive movement, its prominent thinkers and its achievements, at a period of vital change in English primary education. The role of progressive educationists, such as Lane, Neill and Montessori is considered. The author asserts that these pioneers gradually made themselves the intellectual orthodoxy in the years between the wars.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The state, the school and war, 1914-1918; Chapter 2 The founding of a faith, 1914-1925; Chapter 3 The faith founded; Chapter 4 Spreading the good news, 1926-1939; Chapter 5 Progressives and the classroom teacher, 1926-1939;

O autorze

R. J. W. Selleck