Reflection 3

Progressives
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George Herbert Mead - Mead was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist. He was one of the founders of pragmatism, social psychology and the American sociological tradition in general. Mead argued that humans are first object to others and secondly objects to ourselves.

John Dewey - Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and an educational reformer. His ideas have influenced education and social reform. He referred to his philosophy as instrumentalism.

Colonel Francis Parker - Parker was the pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. Was called the father of progressive education. He worked to create a curriculum that was focused on the child as a whole and to have a strong language background.

Thorstein Veblen - Veblen was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist. He was a leading intellectual of the progressive era. His main attack was on the profit of production and the wasteful role of consumption for status.

William H. Kilpatrick - Kilpatrick was the leading figure in the American progressive education movement. He shared his desired with Dewey to have school curriculum to reflect on students’ interest. His theory of learning emphasized “purposeful activity” to engage students while they worked on a variety of projects.




George S. Counts - Counts was a progressive educator, sociologist, and political activist that challenged teachers and educators to use school as a mean for critiquing and transforming the social order. He saw sociology as an opportunity to examine and reshape schools by considering the impact of social forces, political, and social interest on educational practice.

Jane Addams - Addams was a vital part of the progressive movement and believed in self-expression, learning to play, and active engagement. One of her major concerns was child labor, so she began to devote most of her effort against child labor and to promote peace and international cooperation.

Ella Flagg Young - Young was a great aid to the progressive movement. She was the assistant superintendent of schools in Chicago and then became a faculty member at the University of Chicago.

Harold G Rugg - Rugg was a librarian, historian, naturalist, world traveler, mentor, gardener, and Vermont collector extraordinaire. He published “Man and his changing world” which was a social science textbook and it was one of the most progressive textbooks used n schools at the time. Rugg’s series of social studied textbooks advocated liberalism and Keynesianism. His writings represented the expression of progressive education in the field of textbooks.

Marietta Johnson - Johnson founded The School of Organic Education in 1907 and it became known as the most child-centered progressive school in the nation.

John I Goodlad - Goodlad proposed that schools should be “non-graded”. He identified key flaws in the graded education systems and proposed an alternative system of organization to fix some of the flaws. He also argued that the rigid graded education system is not designed to accommodate the realities of child development.

Paulo Freire - Freire was a Brazilian educationalist that made a significant mark on progressive practice. He made a number of theoretical innovations that made an impact on educational practice.



Not Progressives
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Auguste Comte - Comte was a French philosopher that developed the doctrine of positivism which is a philosophical and political movement. His main work was to develop a successive philosophy of mathematics, a philosophy of physics, philosophy of chemistry and biology.

Emma Goldman - Goldman was an early figure for the free speech movement and birth control. She supported anarchism, women’s rights movement and gay/lesbian rights.

Charles Sanders Peirce - Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist. Most of his contributions are to logic, mathematics, philosophy and semiotics. He considered himself a logician.

Ralph W. Tyler - Tyler was an American educator who worked in the field of assessment and evaluation. He contributed to educational agencies such as the National Science Board, Research and Development Panel of the U. S. Office of Education, and others.

Mortimer Adler - Adler was an American professor, philosopher, and educational theorist. He believed that education should be basically the same for everyone and the education serves three purposed: to teach people their leisure time well, to teach people to earn their living ethically, and to teach people to be responsible citizens in a democracy.

William James - James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism.

Booker T. Washington - Washington was an American political leader, educator, orator and author. He played a dominant role in black politics, winning wide support in the black communities and liberal whites. His efforts were to raise funds to establish and operate thousands of small community schools and institutions of higher education for the betterment of blacks throughout the south.

W.E.B. DuBois - DuBois was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author and editor. He attempted every possible solution to the problem of the twentieth-century racism. His opposed the ideas of social integration between whites and blacks, and campaigned for increased political representation for blacks in order to guarantee civil rights.