PROGRESSIVISM

PRESENTED BY: KIANA GERALO

 ION • Progressivism is a theory of education that is
NIT concerned with "learning by doing "that children
EFI
D learn best when pursuing their own interests
and satisfying their own needs.

• Progressivists believe that people learn best

from what they consider most relevant to their
lives. Progressivists center curriculum on their
needs, experience, interest and abilities of
student. Provoke curiosity in students.
 - Progressivist teachers teach to
develop learners into becoming
W HY enlightened and intelligence citizens.
of a democratic society. They teach
TEA CH leaders so they may live FULLY NOW
not to prepare them for adult life.
 -Curriculum that responds to
students. needs and relates to
WH A T students PERSONAL LIVES AND
EXPERIENCES. Progressivist accept the
TO impermanence if life. and THE
INEVITAVILITY OF CHANGE. Thus
T EA CH teachers teach students that skills
they need to cope with CHANGE.
 - Experiential Methods. They believe
that one learns by doing. Students

H OW learn more by doing. For John Dewey,

the most popular advocate of
progressivism, book learning is no
TO substitute for ACTUAL

TE ACH LEARNING/LEARNING BY DOING.

Teachers stimulate students through
thought provoking games, and puzzles.
 CO N C L U S I O N S

• By understanding this philosophy of education, as a teacher, we have to

know which approach can suit well to our learners' needs. Despite of the
good points of process approach underlying this philosophy.

• It is provide with the passage of time that his philosophy and concept
of education and curriculum is very useful and effective to till date and
helping to prepare skilled and useful citizens for a society.
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