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The Introduction of the “New Education” in Queensland, Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Peter Meadmore
Peter Meadmore*
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Faculty of Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Reformist educational discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, usually referred to as the “new education” or progressive education, emanated from the industrialized countries of the United States and Western Europe. They emerged partly as a response to social and economic conditions but also as an attempt by educationists to ameliorate the regimentation and pedagogical limitations of nineteenth-century schooling. A considerable degree of cross-pollination of ideas across different countries occurred through visits, study, and the exchange of publications between educationists, allowing an international focus to emerge. The various discourses that constituted progressive education were at times confusing, even contradictory, and the use of these umbrella-type categories masked and distorted the diversity of pedagogical practices. These discourses also found their way into the Southern Hemisphere including British colonies such as Australia.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , Fall 2003 , pp. 372 - 392
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Copyright © 2003 by the History of Education Society 

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