Race and the Origins of Progressive Education, 1880-1929
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780807756515
Subjects: Educational sociology; Progressive education; Discrimination in education; Minorities, education, united states; Educational equalization; Education, philosophy
Description: This fascinating historical study traces the rise and fall of the theory of recapitulation and its enduring influence on American education. The theory of recapitulation was pervasive in the social sciences at the turn of the twentieth century when early progressive educators uncritically adopted its basic tenets. Inherently ethnocentric and racist, the theory pointed to the West as the developmental endpoint of history and depicted people of color as ontologically less developed than their white counterparts. Building on cutting-edge scholarship, this is the first major study to trace the racial worldviews of key progressive thinkers, such as Colonel Francis W. Parker, John Dewey, Charles Judd, William Bagley, and many others. -- Provided by publisher.