S0247 · cremin_transformation_of_the_school · registry identity

The Transformation of the School

Cremin · 1961

historical record independent3 occurrences across 1 book · load 3

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P12 — The obstacle to educational improvement is a coherent ideology — Romantic, child-centred educational thought descending from Rousseau thr…

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Every occurrence, grouped by book and chapter, with the claim it was linked to support and (where the extraction regenerated one) the underlying warrant.

1996 · The Schools We Need

Lawrence Cremin's historical analysis of the shift to progressive education by the 1930s.

direct By the 1930s, the anti-subject-matter principles of progressive education were the established tenets taught to elementary teachers throughout the nation.

ch 3 · empirical_study · swn:ch3_E2

Warrant (implicit): Evidence that specific ideas are the standard curriculum in teacher-training institutions is sufficient to establish those ideas as the dominant professional orthodoxy of that era.

could fail ifTeacher training curriculum does not always translate to classroom reality if teachers revert to traditional methods once they begin working in schools.

The shift in primary school reading materials from McGuffey Readers to fairy tales.

direct The shift from McGuffey Readers to modern stories in early childhood curriculum represents a move away from moral training toward a focus on imagination.

ch 4 · historical_example · swn:ch4_E17

Warrant (implicit): A change in the primary genre of school reading materials reflects a fundamental shift in the underlying goals of the educational system.

could fail ifThe shift to fiction might be a tactical change to improve student engagement and literacy rates rather than a philosophical rejection of moral training.

Historical account of the origin of American progressive education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

direct The direct origin of the dominant and ineffectual American educational orientation was the progressive movement of the 1920s that emanated from Teachers College, Columbia University.

ch 7 · historical_example · swn:ch7_E1

Warrant (implicit): The contemporary presence of an ideological framework within an institution can be attributed to the specific historical location and period where that framework first achieved systematic institutional dominance.

could fail ifMultiple independent sources of progressive thought, such as European Child-Study movements or local pedagogical traditions, could have converged on American schools simultaneously without a single point of origin.

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Cremin, Lawrence. The Transformation of the School (1964)
Cremin, The Transformation of the School
Cremin, The Transformation of the School; Ravitch, The Troubled Crusade