Holdings Education Department of Educational P... Progressive Education Assoc... Finding Aid Holdings Education Department of Educational P... Progressive Education Assoc... Finding Aid Title: Progressive Education Association Records, 1924-1961
ID: 10/6/20
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Educational Policy Studies
Extent: 18.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: by series and alphabetically and chronologically thereunder
Subjects: Academic Freedom, American Education Fellowship, Curriculum, General Education Board, Human Relations, Indian Affairs, New Education Fellowship, Personality Development, Progressive Education Association
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Office records of the Progressive Education Association (American Education Fellowship after 1944) and its magazine, Progressive Education. Association records include financial statements; audit reports; journals; ledgers; directors' and treasurers' reports; promotional material and correspondence relating to status of local chapters; academic freedom; membership; status of the progressive education movement; New Education Fellowship of London; the Association's commissions on educational freedom, Indian Affairs, human relations, the relation of school and college and separation of Church and state; Institute for the Study of Personality Development; bureaus and committees; branch and state activities; financial grants; General Education Board; National Commission on Cooperative Curriculum Planning; publications; The Eight Year Study; contributions; conferences and exhibits and officers and members of the Association.
The magazine records include financial records, publication materials (galley proofs and page proofs), back copies, reprints, manuscripts and correspondence relating to the content of the magazine, contributions, yearbooks, administrative procedures, advertising, income, subscriptions, and members and officers of the magazine and association.
The History and Philosophy of Education Department was one of the seven departments created on September 1, 1963 when the College of Education's divisions became departments. Each of the departments has an executive committee and chairman. The educational, research, and public service programs of the College of Education had been administered under nine divisions, which had informal status, and five other administrative units. The Department of History and Philosophy of Education offered courses for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.1 The Department of Educational Policies Studies was first listed in 1974.
1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 52nd Report, October 17, 1962, p. 181.
Academic Freedom
American Education Fellowship
Curriculum
General Education Board
Human Relations
Indian Affairs
New Education Fellowship
Personality Development
Progressive Education Association
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1006020.pdf
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