Sentences with phrase «century educational movement»

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Here, as in other places of the world, the educational fruits of the 19th - century missionary movement produced an energetic middle class that was new to traditional societies.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

In my mind, progressive educational ideas have proved so seductive because their appeal lies not in their practical effects but in their links to romanticism, the 19th - century philosophical movement, so influential in American culture, that elevated all that is natural and disparaged all that is artificial.