Author: R J W Selleck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1134534191

Originally published 1972.This book concerns the progressive movement, its prominent thinkers and its achievements, at a period of vital change in English primary education. The role of progressive educationists, such as Lane, Neill and Montessori is considered. The author asserts that these pioneers gradually made themselves the intellectual orthodoxy in the years between the wars.