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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Progressivism"”.
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An International Reformer: Jessie Ackermann and American Progressivism.
… change society in America, but that some carried progressivism abroad to transform foreign societies. This study contributes to the understanding of Ackermann's work as a reformer and the international nature of progressivism.</p>
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A Delineation of Deweyan Progressivism for Physical Education
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BBC School Broadcasting, Progressivism in Education and Literacy 1957-1979
… in schools, their relationship with educational progressivism, and the application of linguistic theory to literacy programmes in the period 1957-1979. School broadcasting has been neglected by the disciplines of education and media history. The thesis uses educational literacy broadcasting as a …
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'Gimme That Ole Time Religion': Traditionalism, Progressivism and Popular Media
This thesis examines the role of Christianity in contemporary American culture using 1990s popular media as cultural artifacts. Building on theories of ideological analysis and hegemony, this project uncovers a balance between progressive and traditionalist ideologies in American culture with …
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The philosophic soul of reform : Herbert Croly's ideal of progressivism
American historians have found that within the passionate reform movements that inundated America from the 1890's to 1917, there was a corresponding intellectual movement away from the rigid and abstract formal logic that had characterized nineteenth century thought. This social thought, stressing …
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Uphill All the Way: The Fortunes of Progressivism, 1919-1929
… years, this study also inquires into how civic progressivism - a philosophy rooted in preserving the public interest and producing change through elevated citizenship and educated public opinion - was tempered and transformed by the events of the post-war period and the New Era. With an eye to …
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The university and its publics: the University of Illinois from progressivism to globalism
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William J. Kerby, John A. Ryan, and the Awakening of the Twentieth-Century American Catholic Social Conscience, 1899-1919 (Progressivism)
William J. Kerby and John A. Ryan were two of the best known progressive activists of the early twentieth-century American Catholic Church. Whether demanding political concern on the part of Catholics, urging reform of the Church's charities, or bringing attention to the issue of socialism, their …
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The Making of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies for Public Space
<p>The emergence of Progressivism at the beginning of the twentieth century influenced many aspects of American society. One of those aspects was urban parks. In the latter half of the nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted led a nationwide implementation of "Victorian" parks. These parks …
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Reformers Revealed: American Indian Progressives at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, 1884-1909
… activities and the larger picture of American Progressivism has not been firmly established within the context of a specific school. By the dawn of the nineteenth century, Haskell Institute was becoming the largest of these federal education outlets, making its success of especial consequence, …
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Reading the middle: US women novelists and print culture, 1930-1960
… a uniquely twentieth-century phase of American progressivism that persisted long past their individual novels' fame."
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Paradigmatic Status and Reform Potential of Iowa Superintendents
… of education, perennialism, essentialism, progressivism, and social reconstructionism, and on the three state-offered reform initiatives in Iowa, The Iowa Initiative for World-class Schools, the New State Standards for lowa Schools, and the views of William Lepley, director of the state …
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The NNER and pre-service teachers' philosophic orientations
… program toward the democratic domains of progressivism and existentialism. However, multiple ANOVAs revealed significant interaction effects between gender and philosophic orientation that suggest gender has a profound impact on the formation of one's philosophic orientation. In addition …
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Behind the Banner of Patriotism: The New Orleans Chapter of the American Red Cross and Auxiliary Branches 6 and 11 (1914-1917)
… Red Cross differed from other forms of biracial Progressivism by the very nature of public relief work for a national charity. American Red Cross relief work brought women into public spaces for the war effort and pushed biracial cooperation between women in the Jim Crow South in a more public …
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Questions of Trace: Presence, Politics, and Virtual Necromancy in Canadian Literary Archives
… and Robert Kroetsch to examine depictions of progressivism and agrarian socialism in 20th-century western Canada. The fonds serve as case studies to theorise archival presence, absence, and trace. I conclude by unpacking the politics inherent to the archive and the practice of academic …
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Enhancing Instruction in a Changing World: Kindergarten Educators Implementing Technology to Support Student Reading Development
… lessons. This research drew on Dewey’s theory of progressivism, as well as Mishra and Koehler’s Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) conceptual model. The study employed qualitative methods through a design-based research approach that included 2 teacher and 2 ECE participants who …
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Vending Vice: The Rise and Fall of West Virginia State Prohibition, 1852--1934
… fixes. Once industrialization hit and progressivism seeped in, however, Mountain State residents were more likely to accept the idea of imposing their beliefs on their neighbors.;In 1912, West Virginia voters overwhelmingly authorized a constitution amendment providing for statewide …
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