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- proper noun The
system ofeducation introduced by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Swiss teacher.
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Though Pestalozzianism, as further developed by the Prussian educators and schools, has never yet realized the completely inductive and consecutive character here contended for, it has been tending in a degree toward such a result; and this is perhaps seen in the most marked way in the method of teaching geography developed by Humboldt and
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
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Pestalozzi's ideas; in England a modified Pestalozzianism was carried into practice by Dr. Mayo.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The early tendency to emphasize nationalism and religious instruction (p. 571) was now stressed, and the liberal aspects of Pestalozzianism were increasingly subordinated to the more formal instruction and to nationalistic ends.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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Literature; _Barnard_, Pestalozzi and Pestalozzianism; _Vogel_,
History of Education Levi Seeley 1887
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