TY  - BOOK
AU  - William G. Wraga
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1085-0678
TI  - Progressive Pioneer
T2  - Alexander James Inglis (1879-1924) and American Secondary Education
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1143752
N2  - Alexander James Inglis’s (1879-1924) transformation from an academic traditionalist devoted to Latin pedagogy to an influential progressive-experimentalist and advocate of the comprehensive high school has received insufficient attention from educational and curriculum historians. Inglis’s career manifests important characteristics of the progressive era in American history. As an attempt to generate organizing principles upon which to construct a new, responsive social institution, his book, Principles of Secondary Education, stands as a quintessential manifestation of progressive values. This fine-grained profile of Inglis’s work reveals nuances in the historic record that are otherwise obscured by high-level historical interpretations. An assessment of the utility of these interpretations for explaining Inglis’s career leads to a discussion of the implications of the record of Inglis’s work for understanding the progressive period and its prevailing interpretations, as well as to a consideration of the role of biography in historical research.
KW  - Progressive education, Education, Inglis, Alexander James, History of education, Biography, High school, Secondary education, Educational leader
LA  - English
ER  -