Word: deweyitis
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...like John Holt, Herbert Kohl, and George Dennison who have dramatized areas of inhumane and unthinking practice as well as various attempts at reform in the classroom. Now, "integrated day," "informal school," and "open classroom" have become as familiar as the jargon growing out of the work of John Dewey and the Progressive Movement. Unfortunately, the Progressives left behind little more in practice than jargon. Advocates of reform along the lines of informal schooling fear that without painstaking attention to new experiments in education, their insights and progress will fall similarly by the wayside...
...America, a chief obstacle to change in areas like primary education where change in the classroom is already conceivable, springs from a trend made apparent in the so-called "academic revolution"--a predisposition to research as opposed to practice. As Featherstone has stated, among Dewey's insights is the realization that far from being a frontier-oriented problem-solving nation, America has become a nation which eschews practice for theory. This trend in graduate schools away from classroom experience--as well as the persistence of state legislatures and teachers' unions in making entry into the profession difficult--obstruct the kind...
...preliminary course as"...a complete co-ordinated training of all handicrafts, technique, and form, with the object of team building." These first six months were then followed by one workshop of the student's own choice: anything from pottery to stage-design and photography. Set up in the Dewey tradition of learning-by-doing, a then radical idea of education, these workshops served as the core of the Bauhaus structure. The students familiarized themselves with their materials and with production processes, picking up practical experience uncommon for architecture students...
Harvard's Dewey Hickman ran a 7.4 in the finals of the 60-yd. high hurdles to take fourth, rounding out the Crimson's scoring in the meet...
Harvard's Bob Clayton, turning in the second best time in the semifinals of the 880-yd, run with a 1:54.2 clocking, gained the finals, while teammate John Quirk also reached the finals, running a 4:12.4 qualifying mile. The two, along with Dewey Hickman, who has reached the semi-finals in the 60-yd. hurdles. were the only members of the ten-man Crimson contingent to survive elimination,with triple-jumpers Kevin Benjamin and Vince Vanderpool Wallace, who was yet to compete...