Download or read book Progressive Reading Education in America written by Patrick Shannon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface: The Struggle -- 1. Introduction: Then and Now -- Traditional Reading Lessons -- The Struggle for the Reading Curriculum -- Humanists -- A Child-Centered Approach -- Scientific Management -- Social Reconstruction -- Power Within this Struggle -- History -- Progressive -- Justice -- Democracy -- 2. Intellectual Roots -- John Amos Comenius -- Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Johan Pestalozzi -- Friedrich Froebel -- Frederick Douglass -- Well-established Principles of Teaching -- 3. The Quincy Method in Context -- Portraits of the Public School System -- 4. John Dewey and the Schools of Tomorrow -- Dewey's Vision for Education -- The Laboratory School -- Schools of Tomorrow -- 5. Self and Society -- Child-Centered Pedagogy -- Play -- Emotions -- Self-Direction -- Analyses of Child-Centered Schools -- Social Reconstructionist Pedagogy -- Curriculum -- Literacy -- Equality -- Collaboration -- Agency -- Progressive Reading Instruction -- 6. All In -- Renewed Critiques of Traditional Schooling -- Reading Instruction in Alternative Settings -- The Process of Reading/Learning to Read -- The Process of Writing and Learning to Write -- The Whole Language Umbrella -- Critical Literacy -- Rethinking Schools -- 7. Variations on a Theme -- Cannot Be Traditionally Taught -- Communities In Which They Live -- Accessible to More Children -- Needs to be Lived ... and Move To (Too!) -- Participate in the World with New Mindsets, Identities, and Practices -- Doing School Differently -- 8. Conclusion: To Continue -- What We're Up Against -- In Reading Education -- The Struggle to Continue -- References -- Index