<P> In the United States the `` Progressive Education Movement '' , starting in the 1880s and lasting for sixty years , helped boost American public schools from a budding idea to the regular norm . John Dewey , a principal figure in this movement from the 1880s to 1904 , set the tone for educational philosophy as well as concrete school reforms . His thinking had been influenced by the ideas of Fröbel and Herbart . His reactions to the prevailing theories and practices in education , corrections made to these philosophies , and recommendations to teachers and administrators to embrace `` the new education '' , provide a vital account of the history of the development of educational thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . Dewey placed so - called pragmatism above moral absolutes and helped give rise to situational ethics . Beginning in 1897 John Dewey published a summary of his theory on progressive education in School Journal . His theoretical standpoints are divided into five sections outlined below . </P>
<P> In the United States the `` Progressive Education Movement '' , starting in the 1880s and lasting for sixty years , helped boost American public schools from a budding idea to the regular norm . John Dewey , a principal figure in this movement from the 1880s to 1904 , set the tone for educational philosophy as well as concrete school reforms . His thinking had been influenced by the ideas of Fröbel and Herbart . His reactions to the prevailing theories and practices in education , corrections made to these philosophies , and recommendations to teachers and administrators to embrace `` the new education '' , provide a vital account of the history of the development of educational thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . Dewey placed so - called pragmatism above moral absolutes and helped give rise to situational ethics . Beginning in 1897 John Dewey published a summary of his theory on progressive education in School Journal . His theoretical standpoints are divided into five sections outlined below . </P>
who is considered the leader of progressive education
who is considered the leader of progressive education
John Dewey
John Dewey