Progressive Education: Revisioning and Reframing Ontario's Public Schools, 1919-1942

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What Was Progressive Education?

1 Ontario’s Educational Context in the Interwar Period

2 Approaching Progressive Education

3 Progressive as Active Learning: Critiques of Rote Scholarship in School

• Child Study and Developmental Psychology
• Social Efficiency and Adjustment to Industry
• Social Meliorism and Engagement with Social Ills

4 Progressive as Individualized Instruction: Critiques of Content-Driven Learning

• Child Study and Developmental Psychology
• Social Efficiency and Adjustment to Industry
• Social Meliorism and Engagement with Social Ills

5 Progressive as Contemporary: Critiques of Learning Correlating Schools and Society

• Child Study and Developmental Psychology
• Social Efficiency and Adjustment to Industry
• Social Meliorism and Engagement with Social Ills

6 Humanists as the Foil to Progressivists: Resistance to Progressivist Reforms in Ontario

7 Continuities and Change: Reforming the Curriculum and the War’s Impact on Progressivist Rhetoric, 1937–1942

Conclusion: Progressive in a Parallel Way

Appendices

Appendix A. Public School Enrolments in Ontario

Appendix B. Composition of the Department of Education

Appendix C. Circulation Statistics for Source Journals

Notes

References

Index