By Richard J. Altenbaugh
The historical past of yankee schooling is a crucial and efficient box of research. This reference publication presents real information regarding eminent humans and demanding issues regarding the improvement of yankee public, deepest, and parochial faculties, overlaying trouble-free and secondary degrees. as well as significant country and local leaders and reformers, it contains biographies of vital nationwide educators, philosophers, psychologists, and writers. topics include very important principles, occasions, associations, enterprises, and pedagogical traits that profoundly formed American regulations and perceptions concerning schooling. The greater than 350 entries are prepared alphabetically and written by way of specialist members. every one access closes with a short bibliography, and the quantity ends with a listing of works for additional examining. Entries have been drawn from a evaluation of top heritage of schooling textbooks and the background of schooling Quarterly. those issues have been extra subtle by means of reviews from major gurus and the individuals. many of the participants are proven students within the background of schooling, curriculum and guide, university legislation, academic management, and American heritage; a couple of additionally paintings as private and non-private college lecturers and therefore convey their sensible adventure to their entries. The interval coated starts off within the colonial interval and maintains during the Nineties.
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As AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY 17 a result of pressure in the 1970s to provide greater visibility to the fields represented within the organization, ‘‘Association’’ became ‘‘Alliance’’ in 1974, with ‘‘Dance’’ added in 1979. Because it is comprised of six associations, AAHPERD exerts wide influence and maintains considerable stature within the education community. These six associations are the Association for Research, Administration, Professional Councils and Societies; the American Association for Health Education; the American Association for Leisure and Recreation; the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport; the National Association for Sport and Physical Education; and the National Dance Association.
Natalie A. Naylor AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS (AFT) is the major national teachers’ union in the United States. In comparison to its larger competitor, the National Education Association (NEA),* the AFT has traditionally identified itself as a trade union and focused on teachers’ working conditions and collective bargaining. Organized in 1916 as a federation of four local teacher unions from the Chicago area (see CHICAGO TEACHERS FEDERATION), the early AFT was troubled by power struggles between female elementary teachers, who constituted the bulk of the teaching force, and male high school teachers, who constituted the Federation’s leadership.
Progressive education’s* emphasis on child-centered approaches to teaching transformed art education by the beginning of the twentieth century. According to progressive educators, children should be allowed maximum self-expression. Art clearly had a central role in that process, and art education moved into public schools. The teacher’s role was to nurture creativity, intervening as little as possible. Retrenchment during the Great Depression moved art education from 26 ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL the domain of the art teacher to the that of the classroom teacher, with significant effects on school art education.