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Humanism
Formation of Committee of Ten
Eliott,
Reflection is on western education; training should be the same; Goals is to reason and think for self DEWEY:
Rejected Harris's 5 windows to the soul and that the child's interest should come after future rewards -
Progressivism
Rice
Mobilizing parents against corrupt local government
Focus on empirical educational research
Incorporate more of the scientific method into educational research -
Developmentalism
Hall and Kirkpatrick
Hall pushes for segregation of sexes at puberty
Hall pushes for science and English to prepare boys for industrial life
Curriculum based on developmental stages of child
Thorndike is also present. Pushing to add more subjects like algebra DEWEY critiques:
Developmentatlism is too simplistic and just as flawed as humanism. -
Fed Government Push
President T. Roosevelt recommends a more industrial and efficient society. urges a "socially efficienct" school system. Galvanizes nation -
Social Efficiency
Ross --> Taylor --> Bobbit
Progress for schools.
Taylor decides to improve industry by improving efficiency in the workforce.
Schools adopt.
Bobbit then comes in and eliminates waste in schools and started school surveys to test efficiencies.
During this time period, there is no education for education sake, it was more management focused to make it run better DEWEY:
Critiques: School is not a factory.
Not all children learn the same way at the same time -
Laggards / Mental Slowness
Ayers
Focus on mental retardation and its effects on school efficiency
found that the curriculum was not conducive to students who were not as mentally developed -
Social Meliorists
Lester Frank Ward
School is principle force of social change.
"Telesis" Greek for planned progress in community DEWEY critiques:
School is not just for social change.
There are certain aspects of the current social order that should be retained. -
Zenith of Social Efficiency