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Minds stayed on freedom: politics and pedagogy in the African American freedom struggle (1).
From:
Radical Teacher
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March 22, 2004| Author:
Perlstein, Daniel
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Calls for schools to build on children's interests, promote active problem-solving, and connect learning to life are commonplace in American discussions of education. Contemporary constructivism (2) is but the most recent incarnation of a discourse that has echoed through American educational reform since the days of the common school movement and that achieved its quintessential expression in the progressive era a century ago. Anticipating whole-language theorists, common school r...