Author: Peter Silcock
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: progressivism, new
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0750709685
ISBN-13: 9780750709682

*Shows how child-centered approaches should be critically examined and then reclaimed *Outlines a new approach to progressivism - strengthened by criticism and adaptation Many useful things that progressivism has to offer (child-centered approaches, flexibility of response, negotiated and democratic classroom organization) have been swept aside in the march of traditionalist policy. Taking robust theories of developmental psychology derived from the work of Swiss psychologist Piaget and Russian developmentalist Vygotsky, Silcock reasserts the need to explore the positive potential of new pro

Author: Ronald J. Pestritto
Publisher: Lexington Book
Keywords: reader, progressivism, american
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2008-05-28
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0739123033
ISBN-13: 9780739123034

This collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive Era explores Progressivism’s role in the development of American political thought. Pestritto and Atto provide insight into each figure’s influence on Progressive Era American politics by introducing each entry with the context within which the author of a given selection is writing.

Authors:Ronald J. Pestritto, William J. Atto,
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: reader, progressivism, american
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2008-05-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0739123041
ISBN-13: 9780739123041

This collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive Era explores Progressivism’s role in the development of American political thought. Pestritto and Atto provide insight into each figure’s influence on Progressive Era American politics by introducing each entry with the context within which the author of a given selection is writing.

Author: Peter Berkowitz
Publisher: Hoover Institution Pre
Keywords: institution, press, hoover, america, progressivism, varieties
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0817945822
ISBN-13: 9780817945824

Whereas conservatives in America often disagree over which moral and political goods are most urgently in need of conservation, contemporary progressives are principally divided over the means?the kinds of government action?for achieving the progressive ends around which they unite. Varieties of Progressivism in America focuses on the debates within the party of progress about how best to increase opportunity in America and to make social and political life more egalitarian.The contributors to this volume, offering different expertise and different perspectives, combine varying voices, termino

Authors:Arthur S. Link, Richard L. McCormick,
Publisher: Harlan Davidson
Keywords: series, history, american, progressivism
Number of Pages: 149
Published: 1983-01-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0882958143
ISBN-13: 9780882958149

A brief, interpretive analysis of the highly ambitious American reform movements from the 1890s to 1917 that shows progressivism to have been a vital and significant phenomenon although there was no unified progressive movement. Link and McCormick succeed in making the events comprehensible while at the same time conveying a strong sense of the complexity and contradictions of the era. "Link and McCormick have covered a vast area, compressing much information into a short space with no sense of the scissor-and-paste technique. Students should be stimulated to read more deeply; teachers familia

Author: Walter Nugent
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, progressivism
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-12-16
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 019531106X
ISBN-13: 9780195311068

After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, an era that plunged workin

Author: John Milton Cooper Jr.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, wilson, center, press, peace, internationalism, progressivism, reconsidering, war
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0801890748
ISBN-13: 9780801890741

Some of today’s premier experts on Woodrow Wilson contribute to this new collection of essays about the former statesman, portraying him as a complex, even paradoxical president. Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson reveals a person who was at once an international idealist, a structural reformer of the nation’s economy, and a policy maker who was simultaneously accommodating, indifferent, resistant, and hostile to racial and gender reform. Wilson’s progressivism is discussed in chapters by biographer John Milton Cooper and historians Trygve Throntveit and W. Elliot Brownlee. Wilson&