NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20240
Since 20230
Since 2020 (last 5 years)0
Since 2015 (last 10 years)1
Since 2005 (last 20 years)2
Publication Type
Journal Articles2
Reports - Descriptive2
Education Level
High Schools2
Secondary Education2
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Watras, Joseph – American Educational History Journal, 2015
This essay will discuss two educational programs to improve the living conditions of students from low income families that Pedro T. Orata conducted during the middle years of the twentieth century. The question this paper will investigate is whether Orata considered the people he was trying to help as being trapped by the conditions of poverty to…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Developing Nations, Poverty, Educational History
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kridel, Craig – American Educational History Journal, 2013
In "The Transformation of the School", Lawrence Cremin warned against formulating any capsule definition of progressive education: "None exists, and none ever will; for throughout its history progressive education meant different things to different people, and these differences were only compounded by the remarkable diversity of…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Documentaries