Review Questions:

1. What is a key part of progressivism in education?
a) Students just memorize facts and take notes. 
b) Students work alone and don't collaborate with others.
c) The activities are based on what students need and enjoy. 
d) The teacher makes all the decisions about what students learn.  

2. Imagine a class is learning about nature. Instead of just reading a book, students build their own       mini-ecosystems in a jar, take care of them, and watch how they change.

How does this show progressivism in education?
a) It lets students learn by doing and thinking for themselves.
b) It makes students memorize facts without understanding them.
c) It only allows one correct way to learn.
d) It shows that the teacher decides everything for the students.

Answers: 1.c - 2.a

References:

Carlson, D. (2002). Leaving Safe Harbors: Toward a New Progressivism in American Education and Public Life. Routledge.

Tisdall, L. (2020). A Progressive Education?: How Childhood Changed Mid-Twentieth-Century English and Welsh Schools. Manchester University Press.

Educational Writings. (1916). The Elementary School Journal, 17(1), 13–23. http://www.jstor.org/stable/993995

Mosier, R. D. (1952). Progressivism in education. Peabody Journal of Education, 29(5), 274–281. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1489846

Ware, M. N. (2017). The legacy of progressive education: A review of John Dewey's vision of education. Journal of Education, 197(4), 230–237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-014-9631-y