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ERIC Number: EJ656619
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-4681
"I Had Never Been Exposed to Teaching Like That": Progressive Teacher Education at Bank Street during the 1930s.
Gerardo, Jaime; Grinberg, Alberto
Teachers College Record, v104 n7 p1422-60 Oct 2002
Describes progressive preservice teacher education during the 1930s at the Bank Street College of Education, providing examples of teaching in courses on environment and language. The courses emphasized the student as a knower and constructor of knowledge and connected school and social context. The paper discusses characteristics of progressive teacher education at Bank Street and notes pedagogical aspects of that type of teaching (Contains references.) (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Progressive Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Bank Street College of Education NY