A Disciplined Progressive Educator: The Life and Career of William Chandler Bagley FROM THE PUBLISHER
Throughout his almost fifty-year career in education, William Chandler Bagley (1874-1946) served as an untiring fighter for liberal and professional education as well as the education of teachers. He was both a supporter and a critic of John Dewey and the complex movement known as progressive (i.e. democratic) education. During the 1920s, he insightfully critiqued the intelligence testing movement and its detrimental effects on minority children. At the end of his long career, he became known as the founder of "essentialism," a movement in educational thought that he and others sought to create in the late 1930s. Bagley is a major figure in twentieth-century American educational thought, whose legacy as a democratic educator and educator of teachers merits much more attention than it has received. This book argues that Bagley's tradition in democratic education should be at least as well known as the tradition put forth by John Dewey.
SYNOPSIS
Null (education, Baylor U.) traces the life of American educator, William Chandler Bagley (1874-1946), who contributed significantly to the fight for liberal and professional education, and teacher education. Both a supporter and critic of John Dewey and the progressive education movement, Bagley received relatively little attention after retiring in 1939. Arguing that there has been a general failure to fully understand Bagley, Null's text broadens the historical understanding of Bagley, with the intent of opening a dialogue about the educator, his ideas, and their relationship to past and present educational practice and thought. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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