Dissertations / Theses: 'Progressive education'

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Russell, Jan Ware. "Characteristics of Contemporary U.S. Progressive Middle Schools." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1363275531.

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Faust, Carolyn J. Pethtel. "Progressive education in transition an intellectual history /." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/carolyn_j_faust/faust_carolyn_j_200701_EdD.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007.
"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Under the direction of William M. Reynolds. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-127) and appendices.

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Darling, Kami E. "Progressive Inclusion: An Ethnographic case study. The daily life of a progressive and inclusive classroom." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253304106.

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Alix, Sébastien-Akira. "L'éducation progressiste aux États-Unis : histoire, philosophie et pratiques (1876-1919)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCB196.

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La période allant de 1876 à 1919 constitue un tournant dans l'évolution de l'enseignement aux États-Unis : c'est le moment de l'incorporation des principes de la pensée progressiste en éducation au cœur du système éducatif américain. En l'espace de quelques décennies, les objectifs de ce système sont radicalement modifiés : aux idéaux d'une culture scolaire mettant l'accent sur l'exigence académique, l'enseignement des disciplines et la magistralité sont substitués ceux d'une éducation socialement efficace, centrée sur l'enfant, sur la nécessité de respecter son régime propre et de former les futurs citoyens pour la démocratie. Cette révolution pédagogique, que le philosophe John Dewey a pu qualifier de « copernicienne », inverse complètement les principes au fondement du projet éducatif américain. Le présent travail de thèse a pour objet, d'une part, de comprendre et d'expliquer les origines et les fondements théoriques et épistémologiques de la pensée progressiste qui a présidé aux transformations de l'enseignement américain entre 1876 et 1919 et, d'autre part, de montrer comment ces présupposés épistémologiques ont pu s'instaurer et s'inscrire dans les pratiques
The period 1876-1919 constitutes a turning point in the history of American education: rapid social changes in American society carried with them implications for a new conception of education; a radically new vision of the role of schooling emerged. In a few decades, the educational system of the United States adopted new methods and ideas: the ideals of a teacher-centered education, of an academic curriculum and of a liberal education given to all students that had been the staples of education for many generations shifted to those of meeting children's needs, of a child-centered education tied to democracy. This shifting of the center of gravity in American education represented a revolution that the philosopher John Dewey considered to be copernican. This doctoral thesis traces the evolution of this major shift in American education. It aims at understanding and explaining the origins and founding principles of progressive education that wrought these massive changes in American education between 1876 and 1919. Furthermore, it aims at showing how these principles may have exerted an impact in America's schoolrooms

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Archibald, Douglas Bollon. "Global education, an alternative program of study for progressive learning." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0013/MQ53397.pdf.

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Brady, Christopher David. "Mid-century American Marxist : the progressive education of Leo Huberman /." view abstract or download file of text, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p1396671.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oregon, 1999.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 300-319). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p1396671.

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Goad, John C. "Dewey Meets Bluegrass: Progressive Educational Theory in the Establishment of Traditional Music Programs in Higher Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2506.

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The study focuses on connections between the Progressive era educational theories of John Dewey and present-day bluegrass and traditional music programs in higher education in order to explore a pedagogical basis for such programs. The research specifically examines Dewey’s beliefs in experiential learning, individualization, and vocational education and their current applications in traditional music education. The study included two major components: historical research into Dewey’s writings and primary and secondary sources regarding traditional music education in the United States, and interviews of faculty members in college and university bluegrass and traditional music programs. The thesis of this study is that experiential learning historically has been part of traditional music education and that it is an essential aspect of bluegrass and traditional music programs in higher education in the present day, leading to students taking part in meaningful learning experiences that contribute to their occupational goals.

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Eirich, Julie Marie. "Classroom meeting a window into children's cultures /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1158593536.

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Bokaer, Lauren H. "Implementation of a Reggio Inspired Approach at the Progressive Academy of Southeast Asia's Early Childhood Center." Thesis, University of Southern California, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10974976.

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This study outlines essential frameworks of Reggio inspiration based on literature from the Educational Project of Reggio Emilia. The purpose of this study was to determine which Reggio inspired frameworks were valued and applied by teachers and instructional assistants (IAs) in the Early Childhood Center (ECC) at the Progressive Academy of Southeast Asia (PASA). The study also sought to provide feedback for educators in the ECC, now four years into the adoption of Reggio inspired values, as they work towards PASA’s 2020 strategic goals of excellence, opportunities, and holistic care. Focus groups, observations, and interviews were conducted with ECC teachers and IAs as a part of a qualitative research design. Transcripts were coded for key words and phrases. Four themes emerged from the study: (1) there are six areas of alignment between participant perceptions of the Reggio inspired frameworks in the ECC at PASA, and their day-to-day practices of that work; (2) concept-based learning is one potential area for growth for the teacher and IA Reggio inspired practice in the ECC; (3) instructional assistants (IAs) experience limitations in their work environment that affect their capacity as Reggio inspired educators; and (4) inclusive education is a potential area for policy reform at PASA. This study highlights areas for further consideration and growth as the ECC works towards the 2020 goals of excellence, opportunities, and holistic care. The study also proposes frameworks that can be used by educators in other settings to examine their Reggio inspired practices.

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Wan, Lisa Chi Yan. "Implementation of Professional Learning Communities at the Progressive Academy of Southeast Asia." Thesis, University of Southern California, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10749206.

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There is a large body of research that suggests the concept of a professional learning community (PLC) can promote improved student learning by increasing collective teacher capacity to meet the diverse learning needs of students (Reeves, 2016; Battersby & Verdi, 2013; Marzano & DuFour, 2011; Fullan 2010, Senge, 2006; Morrissey, 2000; Hord, 1997). Many schools have implemented PLCs around the world. Despite the well-documented benefits of PLCs, there is inconsistency to the extent with which PLCs are implemented within schools and districts. The purpose of this study was to (a) understand how the elementary division at Progressive Academy of Southeast Asia (PASA), an independent private school, has implemented PLCs; (b) learn about promising practices utilized by high performing PLCs to promote teacher collaboration and high productivity; and (c) understand barriers confronted by PLCs during the PLC process. A qualitative research design was used to understand the implementation process through focus group discussions. Focus group discussions were conducted with all grade levels, kindergarten to grade 5 in the elementary division. Ten themes emerged from the study (1) an alignment of belief in the mission and vision and purpose of PLCs by faculty and administration, (2) the elementary school has implemented systems and structures to support the PLC process, (3) there is a collaborative culture for the PLC process, (4) collective responsibility for student learning is still at its infancy stage, (5) PLCs are results oriented and have clearly established SMART goals that align with the elementary school’s strategic plan, (6) instructional assistants are a strong system of support for learning for students, (7) trust is a key to high performing PLCs, (8) there is a low level of trust in some PLCs, (9) there is a transient faculty, and (10) there are an overwhelming number of initiatives that require the time of PLCs at the school.

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Cox, Graham. "Communities of practice : learning in progressive ensembles." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2003. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/4711/.

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This study examines the learning of ensemble skills by young musicians in progressive ensembles. Data collection took place in three music centres which form part of an LEA music service's ensemble provision. This study uniquely approaches ensembles as'socio-musical' phenomena. It finds description and explanation in the constantly changing and developing socio-musical interactions that form ensembles. Using an ethnographic approach it examines the practice of ensembles that are part of musical learning pyramids, through the eyes and actions of the ensemble members. There is an examination of ensemble membership and the social structures and interactions that form ensembles. This study explores, and for the first time identifies, a set of ensemble specific skills. These are the skills that a musician uses to negotiate, integrate and cooperate with other participants in the production of ensemble performance. It goes on to examine how ensemble specific skills are acquired and suggests that the learning process is one of serial performative responsibility transfer created within stratified centripetal progression. New, or novice, members of an ensemble start by participating at a peripheral level leaving it to others to take performative responsibility for the production of a negotiated collaborative realization of the musical intentions of the composer. This study has been influenced by the work of Lave and Wenger and social theories of learning. However, it departs from these theories by suggesting that the learning process within an ensemble is responsibility led and stratified.

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Vallin, Olesya. "Circuits of Civilization: Progressive Democratic Character Education in the Process of Globalization." Thesis, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9199.

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This thesis interprets John Dewey’s theory of the moral life in the global context in order to shed a light on major ethical challenges of the process of globalization. Dewey’s perspective provides an explanation of (1) formation of the individual commitments to particular sets of values,(2) justification of the responsibilities to the distanced peoples as opposed to the responsibilities to the nearest and dearest peoples and (3)the meaning of democratic social arrangements on the global scale.

In order to find a theoretical basis for justification of democracy in the globalizing world, the thesis reviews Dewey’s educational philosophy. His inquiry in the underlying ideas of public education reveals its core democratic meaning which points out the necessity of progressive democratic character education. This thesis suggests that in the current global context the existing educational bodies (such as UNDP and UNESCO) are insufficient in providing such a humanistic education which would actualize democracy as interdependence of all humans within civilization.

In order to establish a just social order which would be responsive to every human being within civilization there is the need to maintain a democratic mode of associated living on the global scale where every human partakes in the accumulation of knowledge of civilization and benefits from it in return. Relying on Dewey's theoretical basis the thesis suggests the criteria which the global educational institution should fulfil in order to maintain democracy as a mode of associated living in the global society.

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Wagner, Michael Garry. "The Progressive Conservative government and education policy in Alberta, leadership and continuity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0012/NQ34852.pdf.

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Hayes, Edward Thomas. "An examination of contextual theological education in the Progressive Primitive Baptist Church." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2014. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2264.

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This project was to done to begin the implementation of contextual theological education to pastors, ministers, and Christian workers in their geographical locales, and to fulfill the mandate for theological education within the Progressive Primitive Baptist Church. Its initial focus is Progressive Primitive Baptists residing in the jurisdiction of the Primitive Baptist State Convention of Florida. The project consisted of three years of preparatory work which led to the establishment of an extension unit in Tallahassee, Florida (August 2012). Preparatory work began through the Florida State Primitive Baptist Church School Congress in April 2005. Members of the Church School Congress provided the dialog to ascertain the needs of the Convention. Those needs were examined in light of the historical origin of the Progressive Primitive Baptist movement before and immediately following the institution of slavery in North America. Surveys and lectures that dealt with both secular and theological education were used to measure the desires of the initial focus group whose number was one hundred and fifty plus persons. Near the end of the project a lecture series was held in Tallahassee, Florida at the site of the proposed extension in order to share the mandates for accredited contextual theological education. The lectures were done with participation from the educational leaders from the two associations that govern the Tallahassee, Florida region churches. Their focus was theories of education, the mandate for theological education, and contextual theological education. The number who participated in the lectures totaled about thirty persons per night. The three nights totaled ninety persons. Following the lecture series twenty persons signed up for classes. The initial class enrolled six students with the expectations of a large increase for the second semester. Documentation is in place to record the progress of the unit as well as the project.

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Sah, Shubham. "A Virtual Reality Based Progressive Learning Paradigm For Supply Chain Management Education." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282059998.

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Range, Shannon K'doah. "Re-framing progressive education : searching for viability in the marketplace of ideas /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Burgess, Maureen A. "'Reforming' the native : frontier activism and women's autobiography in the Progressive Era /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488195154357913.

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Bennett, Scott Lyle. "Progressive education and high school social studies in Alberta in the 1940's." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ38523.pdf.

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Nugent, R. J. "Civic, social and political education : innovative and progressive or more of the same?" Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412561.

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Foley, Sean P. "Teaching, Scholarship, and Institutional Service: A Progressive Interpretation of Faculty Work in Higher Education." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1146222201.

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Heacock, Holly. "Progressive Education in Appalachia: East Tennessee State Normal School and Appalachian State Normal School." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/378.

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In this thesis, I am examining how East Tennessee State Normal School in East Tennessee and Appalachian State Normal School in Western North Carolina interpreted progressive education differently in their states. This difference is that East Tennessee State began as a state funded school to educate future teachers therefore their school and their curriculum was more rounded and set to a structured schedule. Appalachian State Normal School was initially founded to educate the uneducated in the “lost provinces” therefore, curriculum was even more progressive than East Tennessee State’s – based strongly on the practices of farming, woodworking, and other practical skills. I will also be looking at what these different interpretations tell about the states, what it says about the Appalachia region, and how both schools applied these progressive ideas in their schools. Lastly, I will be answering how Progressive education, and normal schools affected the communities in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.

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Goodwin, Sheilia R. "Women leaders and the power of organizing six educator activists in the Progressive Era /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3358978.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Feb. 10, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: . Advisers: Margaret R. Sutton; Donald R. Warren.

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Null, J. Wesley. "A disciplined progressive educator : the life and career of William Chandler Bagley, 1874-1946 /." Digital version, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034943.

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Moyer, Diana K. ""Sentimentalists and radicals": the role of gender in the construction of progressive education in the 1930s." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248381370.

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Reilly, Lucy. "Progressive modification : how parents deal with home schooling their children with intellectual disabilities." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Education, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0035.

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While home schooling is by no means a new phenomenon, the last three decades have seen an increasing trend in the engagement of this educational alternative. In many countries, including Australia, a growing number of families are opting to remove their children from the traditional schooling system for numerous reasons and educate them at home. In response to the recent home schooling movement a research base in this area of education has emerged. However, the majority of research has been undertaken primarily in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, with very few studies having examined home schooling in Australia. The existing corpus of research is also relatively small and incomplete. Also, certain categories of home schoolers and the processes involved in their undertaking of this modern version of a historically enduring educational alternative have been overlooked. In particular, children with disabilities appear to be one of the home schooling groups that have attracted very little research world wide. This group constituted the focus of the study reported in this thesis. Its particular concern was with generating theory regarding how parents deal with educating their children with intellectual disabilities from a home base over a period of one year. Data gathering was largely carried out through individual, face-to-face semi-structured interviewing and participant observation in the interpretivist qualitative research tradition. However, informal interviews, telephone interviews and documents were also used to gather supplementary data for the study. Data were coded and analysed using the open coding method of the grounded theory model and through the development and testing of propositions. The central research question which guided theory generation was as follows: 'How do parents within the Perth metropolitan area in the state of Western Australia deal with educating their children with intellectual disabilities from a home base over a period of one year?' The central proposition of the theory generated is that parents do so through progressive modification and that this involves them progressing through three stages over a period of one year. The first stage is designated the stage of drawing upon readily-available resources. The second stage is designated the stage of drawing upon support networks in a systematic fashion. The third stage is designated the stage of proceeding with confidence on the basis of having a set of principles for establishing a workable pattern of home schooling individualised for each circumstance. This theory provides a new perspective on how parents deal with the home schooling of their children with intellectual disabilities over a period of one year. A number of implications for further theory development, policy and practice are drawn from it. Several recommendations for further research are also made.

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Jordan, Susanne Plum. "Parents choosing independent education personal advantage or a moral alternative /." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=3887.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Feb. 29, 2008). Directed by Kathleen Casey; submitted to the School of Education. Embargoed until Dec. 20, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-249).

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Seager, Michael Allen. "Placing civilization progressive colonialism in health & education from America to the Philippines, 1899-1920 /." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=3&did=1957340901&SrchMode=5&Fmt=2&retrieveGroup=0&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1269450997&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.
Includes abstract. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 24, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 440-461). Also issued in print.

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Makopoulou, Kyriaki. "Continuing Professional Development for Physical Education teachers in Greece : towards situated, sustained and progressive learning?" Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/35339.

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The aim of this study was to build upon recent PE-CPD (Physical Education Continuing Professional Development) research by exploring the nature and quality of PE-CPD provision in Greece; the spectrum of teachers' professional learning experiences in both formal and informal learning contexts; and examining the features of effective CPD provision. The study employed qualitative research methods. Data were collected in three overlapping phases in one borough in Athens from repeat interviews with nine individual PE teacher case studies, interviews with six key CPD stakeholders with a range of responsibilities; and an open-ended profile questionnaire distributed to other PE teachers in the same locality.

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Kassoy, Felice Robbins. "When it all adds up, you feel good that you helped someone:Prosocial Skills in the Context of Service-Learning." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1385744417.

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Preuss, Gene B. "Progressivism in Texas : the origins of LBJ's educational philosophy /." View online, 1993. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/histtad/6.

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Oikonomou, Sofia. "Academic Teachers' Perceptions and Experiences of Outdoor Education." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-79028.

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Outdoor education constitutes an alternative teaching approach that is characterized by authentic experiences and activities in outdoor natural and cultural landscapes. As a relatively new and progressive teaching method, it tries to find and consolidate its place within the existing educational system. The current thesis explores Greek academic teachers’ perceptions and experiences in the field of outdoor education. More specifically, eight academic teachers from a Greek university express their views about outdoor education and report their experiences in outdoor lessons. Through a qualitative approach, this research includes analysis of data extracted from semi-structured interviews with the academics. From the thematic analysis of the data four themes emerged that illustrate teachers’ opinions. The results of the research revealed academic teachers’ basic knowledge on the field of outdoor education, as they presented some well-aimed examples of main characteristics of the approach. Moreover, they reported limited previous outdoor experiences with their students and perceive outdoor lessons as any action outside the typical classroom, attributing higher importance to outdoor activities performed in cultural rather than natural landscapes. Also, academics acknowledged several benefits that outdoor education provides to their students such as the stimulation of all their senses, the connection of theory with practice and the promotion of social relations. In addition, they attributed significant importance to both the experiential approach to learning and to the connection with nature that outdoor lessons provide. Nevertheless, academic teachers highlighted many barriers that inhibit their efforts to apply outdoor lessons such as lack of time and appropriate places, inadequate infrastructure, human resources as well as insufficient pedagogical training and preparation. Concluding, what seems to trouble academics most is the prevailing educational culture inside schools and universities as well as teachers’ and academic teachers’ attitudes. The above findings contribute to the current limited scientific knowledge concerning the practice of outdoor education in the higher level of education. Last but not least, further qualitative research is a prerequisite in order to study the origin of the perceptions and attitudes of Greek academics and comprehend the socio-cultural and educational context in which these have been formed.

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Gemmell, Katie. "The impact of progressive education on Roman Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Vancouver : 1924-1960." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50306.

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Between the early 1920s and 1960, Catholic schools in the Vancouver Archdiocese grew considerably from an assortment of independently operated private and parochial schools to a centralized diocesan system with over three-dozen schools. In the same time period, public education underwent significant changes with the introduction of progressive education, first with the Survey of the School System (Putman Weir Report) (1925) and later with the provincial curriculum revisions of 1936 and 1937. In 1960, the provincial Report of the Royal Commission on Education signalled a change in direction toward a new discipline-based approach to education. Very few historical studies have examined Catholic schooling in British Columbia, nor its relation to broader educational trends. This study used archival research to examine the influence of progressive education on the curriculum, pedagogy, and philosophy in Vancouver’s Catholic schools. Without government funding, Catholic educational leaders in this period were seeking to raise academic standards and demonstrate the legitimacy and necessity of Catholic schooling. The vast majority of Catholic schoolteachers were religious sisters who had devoted their lives to the spread of Catholic Christianity and the education of children. While they were willing to implement progressive methods and curriculum, Catholic schoolteachers and administrators were unwilling to compromise their philosophy of education, which was rooted in an understanding of the human person as both material and spiritual. Perhaps ironically, Catholic educators’ embrace of progressive education was most evident in the archdiocesan religion course. The Catholic school community’s relationship with progressive educational trends can be characterized as one of independence and experimentation.
Education, Faculty of
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Buchholz, Sophie. "Hans Herbert Hammerstein/Yisrael Shiloni : eine pädagogische Biographie." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/2789/.

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Die hier vorliegende Magisterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der bisher unbekannten pädagogischen Biographie des jüdischen Lehrers, Schulleiters, Museumsgründers und Zionisten Hans Herbert Hammerstein/ Yisrael Shiloni (1901-1996). Eingebunden in die Darstellung des bildungshistorischen Kontexts beleuchtet der Beitrag alle relevanten Lebensabschnitte des Protagonisten. Wichtigste Station seines pädagogischen Werdegangs ist die „Private Jüdische Volksschule Bonn“. Zwischen 1934 bis 1937 gründete und leitete Hammerstein/ Shiloni diese Einrichtung, die vielleicht die einzige jüdische Volksschule ihrer Zeit war, die ausschließlich nach reformpädagogischen Prinzipien arbeitete. Nicht unerwähnt soll auch das „Museum Deutsches Judentum“ bleiben, dass den Abschluss seines pädagogischen Lebensweges bildet. Hammerstein/ Shiloni gründete diese Institution 1971 in Israel, um die Geschichte des deutschen Judentums zu dokumentieren. Das Museum besteht bis heute als „Museum der deutschsprachigen Juden – Kulturzentrum der Jeckes“ in Tefen und nimmt einen festen Platz in der israelischen Museumslandschaft ein. Hammersteins/ Shilonis Leben ist trotz seiner Einzigartigkeit doch zugleich exemplarisch für die Generation deutscher Zionisten, die nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg den Zionismus als Erziehungs- und Bildungsprojekt verstand und ihre persönliche, kulturelle sowie politische Identität aus ihm schöpfte. Damit leistet diese biographische Arbeit sowohl einen Beitrag zur Geschichte der weitgehend vergessenen jüdischen Reformpädagogik, als auch zur Bildungsgeschichte der deutschen Juden im 20. Jahrhundert.
This MA-Thesis describes the so fare unknown pedagogic biography of the Jewish teacher, headmaster, founder of a museum and Zionist Hans Herbert Hammerstein/ Yisrael Shiloni (1901-1996). While displaying the historic educational background the thesis specifies all relevant stages of the protagonist’s life. The most important achievement in his pedagogic career was the “Private Jüdische Volksschule Bonn” (Private Jewish Elementary School in Bonn). Hammerstein/ Shiloni founded this institution in 1934 and led it until 1937. The school was probably the only Jewish school in that time, which worked solely with progressive educational principles. His last undertaking in his pedagogic life was the foundation of the “Museum Deutsches Judentum” (Museum of German Jewry) in 1971 in Israel. Hammerstein/ Shiloni were also the curator of this institution, which documented the history of the German Jewry. The museum still exists as the “Museum der deutschsprachigen Juden – Kulturzentrum der Jeckes” (Museum of the German- speaking Jewry – Cultural Centre of the Jekkes”) in Tefen and is part of the Israeli museum scene. Hammerstein/ Shiloni’ s life is, despite it’s uniqueness, exemplarily for the generation of German Zionists, that saw the Zionism as an educational project, after World War I and gained personal, cultural and political identity from this ideology. Therefore this biographic paper contributes to the history of the Jewish progressive education, which was almost forgotten and to the history of the education of the German Jewry in the 20. century.

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McPherson, Mary E. "Organizing Women: Women's Clubs and Education in Georgia, 1890-1920." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/eps_diss/60.

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The rise of women’s volunteer organizations can be linked to the social changes that the United States was undergoing during the Progressive Era. The movement from an agrarian society to an industrial one, massive migration of Americans from rural areas to the cities, and increased immigration all contributed to social challenges in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Recently historians have begun to explore how women’s contributions helped to combat these challenges and this study shows how women’s clubs in Georgia were able to exercise their philanthropic power through their involvement in education. By 1860, the women’s club movement was well underway in the United States, with most of the activity in the Northeast, Midwest, and the West. The South, due to the devastation of the Civil War, did not see an emergence of women’s clubs until 1890. Southern middle class white women felt compelled to help those they perceived as less fortunate at a time when they themselves were trying to establish their own placement within the social structure of the Progressive Era South. Women, due to changing societal roles, were beginning to move beyond the home. They began to use the expertise they acquired through managing a household and applied this knowledge to social programs that would help those in need. Often times these social programs were focused on the education of young children and women. Women’s clubs in Georgia provide a lens for exploring how women were able to influence educational developments during the Progressive Era. Archival data show that the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Atlanta Woman’s Club, and the Athens Woman’s Club played in important role in educational advancements in Georgia during the Progressive Era. Archival and primary source materials were used to support an analysis of gender, social class, and geographic differences on women’s roles in educational changes. This study analyzes how women were able to affect education in Georgia at a time when men dominated educational decision-making.

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De, Lange Catharina Jacoba. "Die Progressive Education Movement (PEM) in die VSA en People's Education (PE) in die RSA : 'n fundamenteel-opvoedkundige vergelyking / Catharina Jacoba de Lange." Thesis, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8302.

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This study is an attempt to draw a fundamental-educational comparison between the Progressive Education Movement (PEM) in the USA and People's education (PE) in the RSA. The connection between these two movements presumably lies in their progressive nature - therefore the purpose of this comparison is to expose the fundamental-educational resemblances between the PEM in the USA en PE in the RSA. This study is subsequently directed at the presentation of a fundamental-educational explanation for resemblances and differences found between concepts of progressiveness as propagated by the PEM in the USA and PE in the RSA. In order to gather and arrange data on the PEM in the USA and PE in the RSA, various methods such as literature study, the problem-historical method, comparative method, fundamental-reflective and descriptive method as well as the transcendental-critical method were employed. In chapter one the context, background, actuality and purpose of this research are presented, a methodological account is given, the research field is indicated and the structure of the research report is briefly outlined. Data in chapters two and three (wherein the PEM and PE, respectively, are typified and described) is essential, because the factors such as culturo-historical background, the spirit of the age and fundamental factors (such as fundamental religious motives and outlook on life) on which the relationship (presumably of a progressive nature) is based, are investigated by means of this information. Data gathered in chapters two and three is structured identically in order to clarify the purpose (the core) of the research, namely a fundamental-educational comparison between these two movements (chapter four). structuring of data in chapters two "and three (wherein the PEM and PE, respectively, are typified and described) highlights the culturo-historical background, concepts of progressiveness, philosophies and the educational-philosophical foundations of the PEM and PE as comparable thought systems. Literature study and the problem-historical method were primarily employed in arranging and adopting data for the purpose of this study. The fundamental-educational comparison in chapter four indicates the presence of more resemblances than differences in viewpoints on and handling of progressiveness by the PEM and PE. Resemblances found in viewpoints on progressiveness can presumably be explained by way of resemblances in religious apostasy freedom in nature I fundamental religious motive, the I humanistic-secular concept of life and biased emphasis on progression at the cost of tradition. The few differences in concepts of progressiveness held by the PEM and PE can presumably be explained by way of differences in their philosophical, pretheoretical and theoretical foundations. In chapter four primary use was made of the comparative method, fundamental-reflective and descriptive as well as the transcendental-critical method. In chapter five, the concluding chapter, a broad outline of the research is presented: findings, conclusions and recommendations are presented by virtue of the research. It was concluded inter alia that the PEM focuses on the inadequacies of the educational system in the USA up to the 1950's as well as on the social reconstruction that had to take place. PE on the other hand focuses on the shortcomings of the status quo and black education. It was concluded inter alia that, based on clear resemblances between their respective origins, the PEM can be regarded primarily as an embodiment of pragmatism and PE as an embodiment of Marxism. Recommendations are made inter alia that changes in education must be progressive- and simultaneously tradition-bound - then, and only then can progression be significant; bias and imbalance can be prevented and the entire process can acquire the true character of reformation in the Biblical sense. The PEM in the USA failed in this and PE in the RSA has, up to now, been unable to maintain the fine balance between tradition and progression.
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Lahann, Randall. "Teach First's Theory of Teacher Education for Social Justice: Distributive Justice and the Politics of Progressive Neoliberalism." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2929.

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Thesis advisor: Marilyn Cochran-Smith
In this critical ethnography I examined Teach First, the U.K. teacher education program modeled after Teach For America (TFA). Teach First described itself as "a unique business-led programme dedicated to addressing educational disadvantage by placing elite graduates in the schools that need them most" (Teach First, 2010). Teach First was thus problematically positioned at the crossroads of both neoliberal and progressive ideologies. My research addressed this problem by uncovering Teach First's theory of teacher education for social justice by applying a framework developed by Marilyn Cochran-Smith (2010) to interviews, observations, and artifacts that I collected at the 2008 Teach First Summer Institute. I then critiqued this theory using the tools of "Policy Sociology," a British research tradition that examines the political, ideological, and economic assumptions that drive education policy. My research led me to identify Teach First as a "progressive neoliberal" (Lahann and Reagan, in press) organization which is driven entirely by a theory of teacher education for social justice based on the idea of justice as distribution. This theory explains why the staff of Teach First appreciated the organization to have a mission of social justice while at the same time endorsing and promoting neoliberal policies which conflict with many theories of teacher education for social justice that draw from theories of justice as recognition
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction

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Hammond, Michelle. "Beliefs of infant and toddler teachers in a progressive childcare center the impact of education and experience /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1467791.

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Eirich, Julie M. "Classroom meeting: a window into children's cultures." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1158593536.

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Rantatalo, Petra. "Den resande eleven : folkskolans skolreserörelse 1890-1940." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Historiska studier, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-59664.

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This dissertation describes the introduction and development of school journeys within the Swedish elementary schools during the period 1890 to 1940. The study focuses on how the journeys were perceived, organised and performed by elementary school teachers and their pupils. The development of school journeys is mainly due to two different organisations: The Elementary School Teachers of Sweden (Sveriges allmänna folkskollärarförening, SAF) and the Swedish Tourist Association (Svenska Turistföreningen, STF). The latter started to support school journeys performed by elementary schools in 1898, by allowing teachers to apply for economic benefits. SAF, on the other hand, helped the development of journeys through the production of guidelines. They also appointed a special School Journey Committee 1899 that were to promote school journeys, and they introduced special youth hostels for travelling school-classes in about 50 cities in Sweden during 1897-1930. School journeys were introduced in Sweden in 1894. The term was used to describe longer journeys taken by school children under the direction of teachers. Its intention was to give the pupil direct experience of the work that had been done in the classroom. The subjects that were dealt with in school, geography, history and nature studies, were thus objectified during the journey. Children were to see and experience such things that hitherto had been nothing but names. In this dissertation the different purposes of the journeys are discussed and it is argued that the journeys became a mean to translate into practise some of the progressive educational principles that Swedish progressive educators discussed at the end of the nineteenth century. These principles included that education should be based on direct observation, that it should promote self-activity and that it should give the pupils a sense of the national community and shape their national identity. The study consists of three parts. The first part deals with the origin of school journeys and the educational principle of direct observation. The second part presents the ways the notion of school journeys were translated into practise. The third part discusses the image of Sweden that was presented to the children, through the journeys.
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Pinhard, Inga. "Jane Addams: Pragmatismus und Sozialreform : pädagogische Theorie und Praxis der Progressive Era /." Opladen : Budrich UniPress, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017661542&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Raber, Jesse Benjamin. "Progressivism's Aesthetic Education: The Bildungsroman and the Struggle for the American School, 1890-1920." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11614.

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During the Progressive Era, literary writers such as Abraham Cahan, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman engaged with ideas emerging from the newly consolidated educational profession about art's capacity to mediate between individual and social development. These ideas varied widely in their philosophical, pedagogical, and political implications, but all reinforced the authority of professional educators at the expense of democratically elected boards of education. Novels working through these ideas can be usefully theorized as Bildungsromane if the definition of the Bildungsroman is refined to be more sensitive to the wide range of educational philosophies that can inform it, and to the range of attitudes, from critical to worshipful, that it can assume toward these philosophies. This reimagining of the genre opens up the possibility that the Bildungsroman, and the Bildung idea more broadly, can have a more positive political valence than most scholars have acknowledged. In particular, a viable project of aesthetic education can be discerned in the philosophy of John Dewey, although it lacks a clear literary corollary.

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Dwight, James Scutt III. "Hyperpedagogy: Intersections among poststructuralist hypertext theory, critical inquiry, and social justice pedagogies." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11132.

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Hyperpedagogy seeks to actualize social justice pedagogies and poststructuralist theorizing in digitally enhanced and online learning environments. Hyperpedagogy offers ways to incorporate transactional pedagogies into digital curricula so that learners throughout the United States' pluralistic culture can participate in e-learning. Much of the hyperbole promoting e-learning is founded on social-efficiency pedagogies (i.e. preparing tomorrow's workers for the information-based, new global economy) that tend to homogenize culturally pluralistic learners. The premium placed on a strict adherence to rigid learning systems inculcated within standards-based reform movements typically, moreover, discriminate against historically marginalized learners. Hyperpedagogy seeks to elucidate the closeting of privilege in e-learning so that learners of color, female learners, and homosexual learners can be better represented in the literature than is currently practiced.
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Getz, Lynne Marie. "Progressive ideas for New Mexico : educating the Spanish-speaking child in the 1920's and 30's /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10475.

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Roberts, Jennifer Suzanne. "An ethnographic study of how teenage girls accommodate or resist emphasized femininities in a progressive Scottish Secondary School." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31063.

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This thesis is an ethnographic study of how gender inequalities are reproduced in the spaces of a progressive Secondary School in the UK. It explores how knowledge is constructed in a school committed to diversity and equality, and considers how and when gender becomes an obscured but pivotal point in the negotiation of power. Through observations of student and staff in lessons, focus groups and interviews, this research contributes to the understanding of how girls are expected to perform femininities in pedagogic spaces. Focusing on how girls read and make meaning of local knowledge I explore how their choices of accommodation or resistance to traditional femininities are shaped. Through a detailed ethnographic narrative of the girls’ lived experiences, this thesis maps the ways and the extent to which girls are willing to step outside traditional gender expectations. Mapping this movement highlights the girls’ enactment of agency and resistance to gender limitations in pedagogy that historically conflate masculinities with spaces such as science and athletics, naturalizing gender inequalities in the classroom. In doing so, this study contributes to the growing body of literature regarding the relevance of gender in pedagogic spaces and how it informs social status and power. Central to this argument is how girls work within and across different sets of competing discursive narratives as their intersectionalities create multiple and often conflicting expectations. As these multiplicities are revealed, the girls develop an awareness of the contradictions of traditional binary beliefs allowing them to deconstruct dominant gender narratives. Highlighting the girls’ alternative positional choices troubles normalizing gender notions exposing the schools’ taken-for-granted knowledge. In viewing the schools’ normalizing discourses as remarkable this thesis furthers the understanding of how schools become sites for the production of gender. By exploring how girls make meaning of their daily gendered experiences and how they conceptualize and navigate the successes or sacrifices of their actions, this research suggests further focus on girls’ empowerment with the goal of decreasing pedagogic inequalities.

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Belmont, Paul N. "The advent of universal public education in Virginia and its Valley : reconstruction through the Progressive Era, 1865-1920 /." Full-text of dissertation on the Internet (1.78 MB), 2010. http://www.lib.jmu.edu/general/etd/2010/masters/belmonpn/belmonpn_masters_04-21-2010.pdf.

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Thompson, Eleanor. "Social reconstructionism : an intellectual history of radicalism in American education form the progressive era to the New Deal." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547814.

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MacDonald, Margaret. "Elwyn Richardson and The Early World of Art Education in New Zealand." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5114.

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This study examines the work of Elwyn Stuart Richardson, director and teacher of Oruaiti School between 1949 and 1962, an experimental school in Northland, New Zealand and places it with the context of the history of art education in New Zealand. After documenting the historical and educational reform contexts of the first half of the twentieth century, Richardson’s philosophy of art education is framed through an analysis of moments of his early life, schooling and teaching experiences. Richardson (1925-) is best known for his book In the Early World published by the New Zealand Council of Educational Research in 1964. The book describes his work as a teacher at Oruaiti and highlights his pedagogical belief that the most powerful learning arises out of children’s own lives and experiences, that learning through the arts raises students’ potential for self-knowledge, critical discernment, imagination, understanding, awareness and empathy for others, and that the arts have an important role to play in the fostering of community and social reform. The administration of art and craft education in the New Zealand primary school during Richardson’s years at Oruaiti was shaped by early advances in manual and technical education. The development of these reforms and the varied educational doctrines school officials used to advocate for the inclusion of these subjects in the curriculum are examined from 1885 to 1920. As well, significant educational policies and events in the 1920s provided exposure to progressive education ideology from abroad. These initiatives contributed to the great interest in child art which grew out of the New Education movement of the 1930s. New ideas about the development of artistic ability in children led to innovative policies in art and craft education that transformed teaching practices and the place of art and craft in New Zealand schools during the 1940s and 1950s. The newly formed Art and Craft Branch of the Department of Education in 1946 reorganised the administration of art education to change public perceptions of art, create contexts of art appreciation and develop community education in tandem with primary school art education. Examining Richardson’s educational biography is another lens used to understand his philosophy and pedagogy. Oruaiti's status as an experimental school is explored through the unique relationship of Oruaiti School to the Art and Craft Branch of the Department of Education. Further, Richardson’s developing educational philosophy, in particular his ideas about artistic ability in children and the growth of aesthetic standards, is explored relative to the teaching practices of his day. The study also uncovers the critical role that science played in Richardson’s educational pedagogy and curriculum and the profound influence Richardson’s early educative experiences were to have on the development of his educational philosophy. Locating Richardson’s work within its historical context demonstrates both that he worked in an environment which was hospitable to educational experimentation in the field of art and crafts, and that, on many levels, he transcended the educational practices of his times.

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Thomas, James W. "CAMPUS AS HOME: AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF STUDENT HOUSING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/epe_etds/47.

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This dissertation explores how student housing impacted the college campus of the University of Kentucky in the Progressive Era. Student housing has long been part of the college ideal but lacked full engagement by many administrators. Through three examinations, housing will be shown to have directly influenced the administrative, social, and staffing elements of the college campus. The role student housing played in the interaction of political, rural, and sociological changes on the campus during the time period allows exploration in detail while addressing the changes within those areas of the state as well. While housing was an afterthought by the administration due to oversight and lack of funding throughout much of the examined history (1880-1945), its consideration was still an essential part of student life and part of the college ideal. Housing was a place wholly of the student – while administrators set policies and the government had a concern for it at various times, it was also a place where, originally, a “boys will be boys” mentality slid by, unapproved, but unthreatened. However, how did the politics of the state shape the college and its housing experience? How did the addition of women students, the first of many major additions that were foreign to the original student population of mostly rural males, change the campus and its structures? Originating in the “environment” of student-centered housing – be it boarding houses, Greek houses, or dormitories, the students who populated these facilities would cajole, alter, and sometimes force the campus through both intentional and unintentional engagements and interactions. This dissertation shall establish an understanding of how the administration, particularly the presidency, viewed student housing. Following the introduction, three sections shall detail instances of housing influencing the campus climate in ways previously understudied. First, an examination of the political climate of the state interacted with concerns about student housing as a key factor in ending the presidency of Barker. The second section will show how a judicial ruling created new forms of student services – granting in loco parentis control but also creating the need for the diversification of services beyond what had existed previously. The third section will denote, in detail, how housing women changed the college campus – expanding its borders and the need for services. Through such examinations, a previously unexplored role of student living quarters as affecting the growth and development of the University of Kentucky into the institution it is now shall become apparent.

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Becker, Colleen Gilday. "A case study of the progressive impact of school-wide positive behavior support on five selected student performance factors in a Missouri K-12 alternative public school." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3577947.

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The purpose of this case study was to examine the School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) impact on five selected student performance factors. A literature review revealed there have been many SWPBS research studies regarding traditional public schools. However, there have not been any published empirical SWPBS studies involving K-12 alternative public schools. Addressing this gap in the literature a Midwestern K-12 alternative public school involving 1,164 students was studied 2007–08 through 2010–11. Data were collected through several school information systems including School Administration Student Information System (SASI), School-Wide Information System (SWIS), and Power School. The independent variable SWPBS was investigated regarding its impact on the five dependent variables academic achievement, attendance, office discipline referrals, dropout rate, and persistence to graduation. Frequencies and percentages of each variable were analyzed using the Chi-square “goodness of fit” test (field, 2009).

Previous studies at traditional public schools reported SWPBS positively impacted the five student performance factors, however this case study did not yield any significant findings at the K-12 alternative public school. Specifically, there were no significant differences between the first year when there was no SWPBS and the fourth year when SWPBS was fully implemented. These outcomes raised more questions than answers. (a) Do the students at K-12 alternative public schools require a different threetiered level system as compared to those in the traditional public schools? (b) Does the process of advancing from one level to another take a longer time for these students? (c) Does professional development need to focus more on how to provide SWPBS strategies to at-risk and special needs students at K-12 alternative public schools? (d) Does the plan of gradually working through the SWPBS initial stages to full implementation take more years for the K-12 alternative public schools to achieve?

Since there are no empirical studies for K-12 alternative public schools to use as guides, future research is essential to answers these questions. The findings and conclusions of this case study will guide building level and school district leaders as they continue the quest for programs and strategies to enhance positive student behavior and academic success. Implications are addressed and recommendations made for further research. The dissertation findings will also add to the gap in the literature and provide a springboard for future research regarding SWPBS effects at alternative public schools.

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Adam, H. (Hoosain). "'n Holistiese benadering tot opvoeding en onderwys : 'n teoretiese ondersoek na die moontlikhede vir die transformasie van opvoeding en onderwys in 'n veranderende Suid-Afrika." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/58694.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The development in economics, science and technology, and politics characterises our world today. Nations have become interdependent to a degree never known before. Isolation of anyone nation from the world community has become unthinkable. This universal interdependence is also a reality on a national level amongst the people of the same country. What does the interdependence mean to education? Education must be regarded not as a series of individual compartments of learning and teaching but as a whole unit - as total preparation for life for humanity at all levels. This could be achieved by approaching education from a holistic perspective. Holism is a comprehensive world view which produces order and coherenc;e not only among the most recent discoveries in the empirical sciences, but also in aesthetics and morals. This study identifies the need for South Africa to establish an education system which emphasised unity and which aims to develop the full potential of all South Mricans. The persons involved in education should be regarded as integrated human beings. The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual domain should be regarded as integrated aspects of the whole person. In keeping with this it is concluded that the whole education system needs to change from a segregated and fragmented system to an integrated and united system in order to meet the needs and expectations of the whole South African population. The apartheid education system was based on the traditional authoritarian approach to education and is to a huge extent the antithesis of a holistic approach to education. This system is described as well as the reaction of those who regarded themselves as victims of the system. The philosophy underpinning the apartheid system is also considered and compared with the philosophy of holism. In order to stay abreast of the dynamic changes that are occurring in South Africa and the world at large it is suggested that a new education system should follow a futuristic approach to education - knowledge that may dominate education today, may become obsolete tomorrow.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die ontwikkeling op die gebied van die ekonomie, wetenskap en tegnologie, en die politiek is kenmerkend van die hedendaagse wereld. Nasies het interafltanklik geword soos nog nooit te vore nie. Isolasie van enige gemeenskap in die wereld het ondenkbaar geword. Hierdie universele interafltanklikheid is ook 'n realiteit op nasionale vlak tussen mense van dieselfde land. Wat beteken die interafhanklikheid vir opvoeding en onderwys? Opvoeding moet nie as 'n reeks afsonderlike kompartemente van onderrig en leer beskou word nie, maar as 'n totale eenheid - as 'n totale voorbereiding vir die lewe van die mensdom op aile vlakke (Iewensterreine). Dit kan bereik word deur opvoeding vanuit 'n holistiese perspektief te benader. Holisme is 'n omvattende wereldsienswyse of -beskouing wat orde en eenheid skep, nie slegs onder die heel jongste ontdekkings in empiriese wetenskappe nie, maar ook in die estetiese en morele aspekte. Hierdie studie identifiseer die behoefte in Suid-Afrika om 'n onderwys-/opvoedingstelsel te vestig wat eenheid beklemtoon en wat ook ten doel het om die volle potensiaal van aile Suid-Afrika~ers te ontwikkel. Die persone betrokke by die opvoeding en onderwys behoort as geintegreerde mense beskou word. Die fisiese, intellektuele, emosionele en geestelike aspekte behoort beskou te word as integrale aspekte van die totale mens. Na aanleiding hiervan word tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat die opvoedingstelsel in die geheel moet verander, naamlik van die van 'n gesegregeerde en gefragmenteerde stelsel na die van 'n geintegreerde en verenigde stelsel. Dit is noodsaaklik sodat aan die behoeftes en verwagtinge van die hele Suid-Afrikaanse bevolking voldoen kan word. Die apartheidsonderwysstelsel was op die tradisionele outoritere benaderingtotonderwys en opvoeding gebaseer. Dit is in 'n groot mate die antitese van die holistiese benadering tot onderwys en opvoeding. Hierdie stelsel, asook die reaksie van diegene wat hulle as slagoffers van die stelsel beskou, word ook beskryf. Die filosofiese grondslag van die apartheidstelsel word ook in ag geneem en met die filosofie van holisme vergelyk. Om gedurig tred te hou met die dinamiese veranderings wat in Suid-Afrika en oor die hele wereld plaasvind, word voorgestel dat 'n nuwe onderwys-I opvoedingstelsel eerder 'n futuristiese benadering moet volg - kennis wat vandag die onderwys en opvoeding domineer, is dalk weer more verouderd.

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