The Death of Progressive Education
Subtitle: How Teachers Lost Control of the Classroom
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 14, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780415359719
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Organization & management of education; Education; Education / Teaching; General; Education / Curricula; Classroom Management; Curricula; 20th century; Educational sociology; England; History; Political aspects; Progressive education
Description: This is an examination of the rise of child-centred approaches to teaching in the period following the Second World War and traces the process by which the role of the classroom teacher has been almost completely transformed since major debates on what should be taught and how it should be taught during the 1960s.