Progressive education in New Zealand from 1937 to 1944: Seven years from idea to orthodoxy

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Couch, Daniel. 2012. "Progressive education in New Zealand from 1937 to 1944: Seven years from idea to orthodoxy." Pacific-Asian Education. 24 (1), pp. 55-72.
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Progressive education in New Zealand from 1937 to 1944: Seven years from idea to orthodoxy

ERA Journal ID201349
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsCouch, Daniel
Journal TitlePacific-Asian Education
Journal Citation24 (1), pp. 55-72
Number of Pages18
Year2012
PublisherPacific Circle Consortium
Place of PublicationAustralia
ISSN1019-8725
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1937 marked a pivotal point in New Zealand’s educational history. An international organisation known as the New Education Fellowship held a conference in New Zealand. Fourteen internationally renowned lecturers spoke on topics concerning the reorganisation of education in democratic societies. The New Education Fellowship delegates lectured from a pedagogical understanding that had been developed by the likes of Dewey and Nunn, and was referred to as both progressive education and new education. By the closing lecture of the conference, the idea of a new education pedagogy had been introduced and legitimised to mainstream New Zealand educators and public on a previously unprecedented scale. Through the development of a thorough understanding of this conference, a historiographical survey follows the influence this idea exerted over the following seven years as it made its way from an idea to a pedagogical orthodoxy by 1944.

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