1. Announcements 11/06/02 Revised Syllabus on Website Exam #2 Scheduled for Wed. Dec. 11 Paper #2 Due Nov. 15 Paper #3 Due Dec. 17 This week: –Read Chaps. 15 and Chap. 11 (329-336) Next week (Nov. 11-15) as originally scheduled –Sean Reardon, Segregation and Desegregation, and Educational Equity –Readings: Orfield in Course Packet and Chap. ….

2. Today IEducation During the Progressive Era, 1890s-1940s IIEducational Theories and Philosophies IIIInternational Issues in Education

3. But first … [Note: gave IQ test]

4. Importance of Education in the Progressive Era New Views of Children and Schooling New Curricula New Ways of Classifying Children New Philosophies and Theories New Structures: Kindergarten; Junior High; High School; Junior College New Practices Overall—The Establishment of Many Ideas, Structures, and Practices That Remain Today

5. General Goals of Progressive Educators 1.Schools should be adapted to the child, instead of adapting children to schools 2.Schools should meet the needs of the whole child—intellectual, physical, emotional 3.The curriculum and instructional practices should be “modernized” –Away from the overly rigid, mechanized, “lock-step” instruction of the 1800s 4.Schools should meet new needs of society

6. General Educational Goals 1. Schools should be adapted to the child, instead of adapting children to schools –Helen Todd, “Why Children Work,” 1913

7. General Educational Goals (con’t.) 2.Schools should meet the needs of the whole child—intellectual, physical, emotional

8. General Educational Goals (con’t.) 3. The curriculum and instructional practices needed to be modernized –Rice, Education in the U.S., 1893 –Dewey

9. General Educational Goals (con’t.) 4.Schools should meet new needs of society Transformation of education Dewey

10. Different Types of Progressivism Administrative Progressives Pedagogical Progressives Social Reconstructionists Libertarians

11. Administrative Progressives Ellwood Cubberley, Stanford Professor and Reformer (Scientific Management) 1.Take schools out of politics 2.Base education on science not tradition 3.Efficient management of schools 4.Differentiate structure 5.Classify and differentiate students 6.Assimilate immigrants 7.Education is part of the battle in international competition

12. Pedagogical Progressives John Dewey –School and Society, 1899 –Education and Democracy, 1916 –Experience and Education, 1938

13. Social Reconstructionists George Counts –“Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order,” 1933

14. Theories of Education Progressivism Scientific Management Social Reconstructionism Existentialism Perennialism Essentialism