| The Progressive Education Movement appears as one of thosetruly American artifacts, the patchwork quilt: bits and pieces ofolder garments (some from the old country) and snips of newcloth, interestingly positioned shapes and color forming a wholeproviding substance and service for the present and future. In asense, there is no precise beginning to the Progressive Educa-tion Movement, since its antecedents come from sources so var-ied in time, place and intent. There is, however, a need to setparameters for the purposes of a bibliography. The last severaldecades of the nineteenth century reflect the thrust of scientiststo position man in terms of his development. Similarly, amongeducators and social scientists, the possibility of relating stagesof the development of mankind to a growing focus on the indi-vidual set the stage for a scientific approach to education. Thisapproach surfaced almost simultaneously in England, America,Italy, Germany, France and Belgium. The beginning of thetwentieth century emerges as a decisive point in the coalescingof ideas. |
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