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**Progressive Education: An Overview** media type="youtube" key="opXKmwg8VQM" height="342" width="531" align="center"

1901: Dewey publishes //Psychology// and //How We Think// describing his Functional Theories.

1903: Thorndike applies his Law of Effect to human behavior. Strong behavioral responses for rewards but not for punishment. 1910: Gestalt Psychology influences the Progressive Movement.

1913: Thorndike's Connectionism or Learning = Stimulus - Response became the leading educational psychology.

1918: The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education is published. It lists the principles of American education as health, command of fundamental processes, worthy home membership, vocation, citizenship, worthy use of leisure, and ethical character. It supported the concept of general education and the production of good citizens.

1922: Dewey publishes Human Nature and Conduct describing the interaction of the individual and his environment.

1929: Piaget presents his learning theory of genetic epistomology. Learning is the construction of meaning.

1930: Guthrie's contiguity theory of learning is presented.

1932: Progressive Education Association appoints a committee to explore "the needs of young people in the democratic society of America today." After 6 years they develop goals for science teaching that focus on science and social progress, cultural patterns, and interpersonal relationships.

1937: //Science in General Education// (Commission on Secondary School Curriculum) illustrated the relationship between science teaching and general education.

1938: Skinner publishes //Behavior of Organisms// that repopularizes behaviorist classroom models.

1939-1945: WWII brings a more functional view of science education.

1944: The report //Education for All American Youth// restates perspectives of //Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education//and declares "no aristocracy of 'subjects'" including science.

1945: //General Education in a Free Society// report emphasizes general education that integrates broad elements from all modes of thought. Unfortunately, this idea has not been realized in many programs.

1945: //Science: The Endless Frontier// calls for the establishment of the National Science Foundation and emphasizes the relationship of the NSF to science education reform. It also established the connection between science education and the emergence of new, talented scientists and engineers.

1947: //Science Education in American Schools//declared science subjects should be taught so they are functional and enable students to construct meanings at higher and higher levels. construct meanings at higher and higher levels. 1954: Supreme Court Rules on the Brown vs. Board of Education case in support of racial equality in educational opportunity.

​ **Extra Reading on the Progressive Era ** ​Civic Education and Changing Definitions of American Identity,1900–1950 Whatever Happened to Progressive Education? A Comparison between John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry and Jean Piaget's Genetic Analysis of Intelligence Educating the Female Citizen in a Post-war World: Competing Ideologies for American Women, 1945-1965 After Binet: French Intelligence Testing, 1900-1950 The Small Group and Democratic Social Engineering, 1900-1950 Progressive Education: One Parent's Journey Defining Eight Core Values of Progressive Education



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