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Progressive education - Coggle Diagram

- - - - subordination of students and memorization does not lead to education
    - - truth and knowledge come from observation and experience not given ideas
- - - - child's individuality
        
        its personality, needs, interests should be acknowledged
        
        education should discover natural abilities of the child, not be imposed from the outside
      - the role of teacher
        
        not to impose strict regimes
        
        foster child's natural abilities and help develop them
      - democratic concept of individual worth
- - - - American philosopher and educational reformer
      - "the new education" - reforms in elementary education
      - educational philosophy
        
        two sides
        
        the psychological
        
        the sociological
        
        focus on the child as a whole
        
        you cannot be sure where the student will be needed in society
        
        the curriculum should reflect the society
        
        development of humans in society
        
        core subjects
        
        language
        
        science
        
        history
        
        AND cooking, sewing, manual training
      - traditional education fails because it neglects the principal of school as a form of community life
        
        school must represent the present life
        
        teacher is a member of the community and assists the students
    - - the University of Chicago Laboratory School (by John Dewey)
      - the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago
      - the School of Organic Education at Fairhope, Alabama
      - the experimental elementary school at University of Missouri, Columbia