Chapter ten brings forward two articles The Little Gray Book: Pedagogy, Discourse and Rupture in 1937 and Selling Progressive Education to Albertans, 1935-1953, both articles highlight the change to progressive education in various parts of Canada, and the trials and tribulations that went along with its inception.
The Little Gray Book: Pedagogy, Discourse and Rupture in 1937, has a number of positive elements that help showcase the history of progressive education. The article begins to discuss how the idea of progressive education was not a new invention and the idea in fact came from the United States, this helps readers understand and appreciate this idea was not a new drastic idea and in fact there had been precedent for this move to progressive …show more content…
A more thorough description of what occurred and the background to why it spread in other areas of the country could have been a beneficial addition for the article to touch on.
The second article, Selling Progressive Education to Albertans gave another fascinating side to the beginning of progressive education on the other side of the country. The article starts off with giving different individuals opinions of the merit to progressive education and due to the fact they are opposing perspectives it highlights that progressive education was not a simple process and that not everyone accepted it which as a reader is most defiantly worth …show more content…
The article describes what the change meant for prospective teachers in the normal schools, and teachers who were already established and the processes that they had to go through to keep up with the changing times of progressive education. This is an area that would typically be overlooked, however, it is a key point in the history of Canadian education as it highlights that the change to progressive education was not a quick fix where administrators merely told teachers how to teach and what to teach, it was a whole new style that needed to be taught to the teachers as well. The experience for already established teachers completely transforming there style of teaching must have been a struggle and leaves this reader with a keen interest in this subject matter as to how did the teachers who had already been in schools prior to progressive education fair in changing there teaching style.
Selling Progressive Education to Albertans brought up the implementation of social studies as an amalgamation of history and geography. This was a fascinating story however, it would be appealing to get a farther background on additional subjects that were either created or changed due to the shift to progressive education opposed to
The Little Gray Book: Pedagogy, Discourse and Rupture in 1937, has a number of positive elements that help showcase the history of progressive education. The article begins to discuss how the idea of progressive education was not a new invention and the idea in fact came from the United States, this helps readers understand and appreciate this idea was not a new drastic idea and in fact there had been precedent for this move to progressive …show more content…
A more thorough description of what occurred and the background to why it spread in other areas of the country could have been a beneficial addition for the article to touch on.
The second article, Selling Progressive Education to Albertans gave another fascinating side to the beginning of progressive education on the other side of the country. The article starts off with giving different individuals opinions of the merit to progressive education and due to the fact they are opposing perspectives it highlights that progressive education was not a simple process and that not everyone accepted it which as a reader is most defiantly worth …show more content…
The article describes what the change meant for prospective teachers in the normal schools, and teachers who were already established and the processes that they had to go through to keep up with the changing times of progressive education. This is an area that would typically be overlooked, however, it is a key point in the history of Canadian education as it highlights that the change to progressive education was not a quick fix where administrators merely told teachers how to teach and what to teach, it was a whole new style that needed to be taught to the teachers as well. The experience for already established teachers completely transforming there style of teaching must have been a struggle and leaves this reader with a keen interest in this subject matter as to how did the teachers who had already been in schools prior to progressive education fair in changing there teaching style.
Selling Progressive Education to Albertans brought up the implementation of social studies as an amalgamation of history and geography. This was a fascinating story however, it would be appealing to get a farther background on additional subjects that were either created or changed due to the shift to progressive education opposed to