This utopian believed that a thousand years of peace and prosperity were coming “like a thief in the night.”
Who is Robert Owen?
100
Dewey was a member of this middle-class movement to reform and revitalize American life and institutions.
What is the Progressive Movement?
100
She never married.
Who was Jane Addams?
100
Gandhi’s policies, especially satyagraha and nonviolent resistance, provided the foundation for this famous American leader's strategies.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
100
This Evangelical Protestant country was Pestalozzi’s homeland.
What is Switzerland?
200
This novel, Rousseau’s most famous, was based on himself.
What is Emile?
200
He is generally considered the common school movement’s foremost statesman.
Who is Horace Mann?
200
Her son helped her go global.
Who was Maria Montessori?
200
Paulo Freire’s liberation pedagogy opposed the traditional method of teaching, in which students are treated as empty vessels to be filled up by the teacher--which he referred to as this.
What is the "Banking" method of education?
200
He went to a girls’ school.
Who was Friedrich Froebel?
300
Rousseau, a paradox in many ways, was a major writer of this period of reason and rationality, although he also opposed many of the ideas associated with it.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
Since he couldn’t persuade his alma mater to reform itself, Jefferson established this famous non-denominational university with a central commitment to academic freedom.
What is the University of Virginia?
300
Jane Addams set up this famous settlement house in Chicago so that immigrants would have a safe place to learn practical skills.
What is the Hull House?
300
W.E.B. DuBois believed that the key to Black success in America was higher education, putting him at odds with this other famous Black leader who felt that vocational education was the answer.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
300
Although Johann Pestalozzi hated bloodshed, he truly believed in “liberty, equality, fraternity,” the motto of this historic event.
What is the French Revolution?
400
Rousseau loved being lost in nature, happily daydreaming, which he also called this 7-letter word.
What is Reverie?
400
Thomas Jefferson was very much influenced by the empiricism of the Enlightenment, particularly the writings of this famous British philosopher.
Who was John Locke?
400
Basing her conclusions on actual clinical observation of children’s behaviors rather than on her own childhood reflections, Maria Montessori believed that children learn best in this type of environment.
What is the “prepared environment”?
400
Unfortunately for Du Bois and all American minorities, the Plessy vs Ferguson ruling of 1896 established the “separate but equal” rule that was not overturned until this famous ruling of 1954.
What is Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka?
400
Papa Pestalozzi was famous for this learning strategy in which children examined the form, shape, quantity, number and weights of objects and then learned to name them.
What is the "object lesson"?
500
Owen’s American “village of unity,” New Harmony, was the new version of this famous Scottish one.
What is New Lanark?
500
Dewey’s educational philosophy emphasized activity-based “learning by doing” and “doing what works,” otherwise known as this.
What is pragmatism (or experimentalism)?
500
Mary Wollstonecraft was born in a time when women had few rights: husbands controlled their wives’ property and all property was inherited by the eldest son, a practice known as this.
What is primogeniture?
500
Mohandas Gandhi believed that people had to become spiritually prepared for nonviolent resistance, so he set up this famous ashram, or spiritual community, named after one of his Russian social justice heroes.
What is the Tolstoy Farm?
500
Friedrich Froebel said that all children need to play and every kindergarten needs these two types of things to play with.