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Background on Bagley

Essentialism

Main Ideas of Essentialism

Bagley Essentailism

William Bagley

Effort vs. Interest

Essentialist teachers train students to develop an interest in higher education after they have applied discipline and duty.

Race Experience vs. Individual Experience

According to Essentialism, it is more important to keep developing and progressing a nation's culture in order to advance and keep democracy afloat then to worry about yourself as an individual in society.

Teacher Initiative vs.

Learner Initiative

The Essentialist belief that teachers should be the main guide for all classroom learning. Student's informal self-guided learning should be nonexistent or extremely limited.

Essentialism is the education philosophy that there are certain fundamental skills and subjects that are crucial to perpetuating and continuing human civilization. These skills are literacy, arithmetic, and the subjects of history, mathematics, science, and English (language/literature). If schools and educators fail to teach these subjects civilization might not survive.

  • Effort against Interest

  • Teacher Initiative against Learner Initiative

  • Race against Individual Experience

  • Subject against Activity

  • Logical against psychological Organization

William Chandler Bagely, 1874-1946

  • American Educator, Editor, and Author.
  • 1895- Graduated from Michigan State University.
  • 1898- Received his M.S. at the University of Wisconsin.
  • 1900- Ph.D. at Cornell.
  • Taught in elementary schools before becoming a professor of education at the University of Illinois in 1908.
  • 1917 to 1940- Professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia.
  • Coined the term Essentialism and was an opponent of progressive education.
  • Works Include: The Educative Process (1905), Educational Values (1911), Determination in Education (1925), Education and Emergent Man (1934)
  • Editor in cheif of the Journal of the National Education Association (1920-25), and founder of School and Society (1939-46) and Essentialist Education Society

Subject vs. Activities

The subject comes first. All fundamental subjects should be provided first (Reading, writing, math, language, geography, history, literature, physiology, etc.). If there is room for accessory subjects time can be spared (drawing, music, natural study, etc.)

Logical Organization vs.

Psychological Organization

Essentialist believe that Logical Organization means that if you pass you should progress and if you fail you should be failed and learn from your failure to progress and then move on. This is the opposite of Psychological Organization.

Work Cited

Orstein, A.C., & Levine, D.U. (2006). Foundations of Education (9th ed.). Boston Houston Mifflin Company.

Bagley, W.C. (1941). The Case for the Essentialism in Education. Nation Education Association Journal. Retrieved from file:///C:/Users/rnord/Desktop/SCED200/Bagley-reading.pdf

Ginsberg, A. E. (2012). Embracing risk in urban education. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Education.

Bagley, W.C. (1910). Classroom management. Norwood, Massachusetts: The Macmillan Company. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books/about/Breaking_the_mold_of_school_instruction.html?id=8pTPgHgU7QUC

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