 | Idealism Transformed: The Making of a Progressive Educator Subjects: Putman J. Harold (John Harold) 1866–1940; Educators -- Canada -- Biography; Educatipn -- Canada -- History; Education -- Canada -- Philosophy -- History; John Harold Putman, inspector of Ottawa public schools between 1910 and 1937, was a leading progressive educator. At that time the progressive education movement in Canada was composed of two major intellectual strands, neo-Hegelian idealism and new liberalism. By tracing the thought and practices of this eminent educator, Wood shows how the neo-Hegelian philosophy of the late nineteenth century was transformed by its own logic and social imperatives into what seems to be its opposite. Idealism, ironically, ultimately comes to resemble pragmatism. Wood Anne : Educ, DalhousieB. Anne Wood is a member of the Department of Education, Dalhousie University. |
