In the course of their efforts, Progressive educators under the leadership of such persons as John Dewey, William H. Kilpatrick and Jane Addams advocated:
a) The learning theory that children learn best if they begin with abstract principles and generalizations and move toward concrete examples to prove or disprove them
b) A child-centered curriculum that would involve children in the development of their own learning activities
c) Lessons programmed to meet predetermined objectives with negative and positive reinforcement at each step in the process
d) A de-emphasis of the affective goals of education and more emphasis on the cognitive goals
B
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