EDRD 3120 Chapter Notes -Progressive Education, Education Review, High Speed 1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 3120
• Professor: L.Pinto

Document Summary

A brief history of education in ontario: education. Gidney suggests three central ideas that guided education reform in. The 20th c sees constant tension between conservative and. Conservative = (traditionalist), advocates a back to basics or 3 rs approach. Progressive = (deweyan), concerned with the development of the whole child and with pedagogy as much as content (especially child-centred pedagogy). Despite progressive language in policies, these practices were not enacted in classrooms. Rather, they embodied a more conservative approach and were shaped by a number of seminal reports. The robards plan of 1960 = concerned with education for all to increase the rate of graduation. Hs1 which laid out secondary school graduation requirements, for the first time allowing a degree of flexibility in courses selected. This ushered in the development of provincial curriculum guidelines to direct course content and suggest teaching materials and methods, though these documents were not particularly rigid. The hall-dennis report (or living and learning) attained.