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Expressionist Education.
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Scruton, Roger – Oxford Review of Education, 1987
Maintains that Plowden Report appealed as much for its underlying ideology as for its practical instructional suggestions. The ideology was one of "expressionist egalitarianism": belief that each child's potential is equal and is reached through a process of free expression. States that such ideas are inherently implausible and maintains…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Planning