Christine Ann Christle

Contributor

BIOGRAPHY

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina. Her contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent (2010) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.

Primary Contributions (2)

Articles

Young children in yellow uniforms sit on the floor of a bright, spacious classroom in Hanoi, Vietnam, engaged in various Montessori activities with teachers nearby.

Montessori schools

Montessori schools, educational system characterized by self-directed activities and self-correcting materials, developed in Europe during the early 1900s by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori. Montessori had studied the work of Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard and Edouard Séguin; she first…

Edward Miner Gallaudet

Publications (1)

Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent (January 2010)

By Thomas C. Hunt

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Educational reform, and to a lesser extent educational dissent, occupy a prominent place in the annals of U.S. education. Whether based on religious, cultural, social, philosophical, or pedagogical grounds, they are ever-present in our educational history. Although some reforms have been presented as a remedy for society's ills, most programs were aimed toward practical transformation of the existing...