After reading the PowerPoint on progressivism and reading the attacks from the perennials and from progressivism I just feel that progressivism is more of what today’s society is about and for a child to get the best out of education then the teacher needs to teach what is relevant to society and to the student’s needs. This is best done with the progressivist philosophy because of the tenet to focus on the child’s needs and the whole child. It also focuses on how to learn rather than what to learn, which a student will need to know how to do in
After reading the PowerPoint on progressivism and reading the attacks from the perennials and from progressivism I just feel that progressivism is more of what today’s society is about and for a child to get the best out of education then the teacher needs to teach what is relevant to society and to the student’s needs. This is best done with the progressivist philosophy because of the tenet to focus on the child’s needs and the whole child. It also focuses on how to learn rather than what to learn, which a student will need to know how to do in