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| Semester | fall semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | |
| Content | This compact seminar will explore the history, theory, and practice of “progressive education.” The course will first explore how the European Enlightenment and Romanticism generated new ideas about the nature of the child and schooling by the early 19th century. We will consider, for example, the influence of J.J. Rousseau, Johann Pestalozzi, and Friedrich Froebel, and conservative resistance to their child-centered ideals. The seminar will then explore how progressive norms shaped a variety of schools and school practices in Europe and America in the 19th and 20th century, and how the rise of standardized testing threatened child-centered education. |
| Bibliography | 1) Allen, Ann Taylor, “‘Let Us Live With Our Children’: Kindergarten Movements in Germany and in the United States, 1840–1914,” History of Education Quarterly 28 (Spring 1988): 23–48. 2) Cremin, Lawrence A., “What Was Progressive Education? What Happened to It?” Vital Speeches of the Day 25 (September 1959): 721–725. 3) Cuban, Larry, How Teachers Taught (New York: Longman, 1984). 4) Dewey, John and Evelyn Dewey, Schools of Tomorrow (1915). Individual chapters explore various “progressive school experiments.” 5) Labaree, David F., “Progressivism, Schools, and Schools of Education: An American Romance,” Paedagogica Historica 41 (February 2005): 275–288. 6) Reese, William J., “The Origins of Progressive Education,” History of Education Quarterly 41 (Spring 2001): 1-24. 7) Tröehler, Daniel, Pestalozzi and the Educationalization of the World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). |
| Comments | Die Veranstaltung findet ausschliesslich ONLINE statt Dozent: Bill Rees |
| Admission requirements | BA-Abschluss keine Hörer/innen |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul: Theorie und Geschichte der Erziehung, Bildung und Schule (Master's Studies: Educational Sciences) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Anwesenheit (100%) - aktive Teilnahme an der Lehrveranstaltung (Vorbereitungstexte sind gelesen, Auf- und Nachbereitungsarbeiten erledigt) - Schriftliche Arbeit |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: teaching staff |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Institute for Educational Sciences, bildungswissenschaften@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Institute for Educational Sciences |