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Progressive education appeared in the United States at the turn of the century. Closely associated with the instrumental philosophy of John Dewey, progressive education sought to transform curriculum from rote memorization to active student participation and to integrate abstract subjects into everyday life. At Dewey's well-known laboratory school at the University of Chicago, children building a small-scale log cabin would learn not only basic geometry but also the history of homesteading and western expansion. In the high schools Dewey favored a curriculum that integrated student talents and practical tasks and was an early partisan of vocational education. Such "learning-by-doing" and "child-centered curriculum" were radical innovations at a time when basic reading was taught via Bible recitation and the typical high-school curriculum was dominated by Latin and Greek. In two important books, School and Society (1899) and Democracy and Education (1916), Dewey had furthermore argued that the...
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