THE NEW EDUCATION - ELEMENTS THAT MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

The whole movement of educational ideas is coming from the beginning of the century until now (the new schools, the movement for aesthetical education, the interest for knowledge and optimal evolution of the child as represented by E. Key, the experimental and social education) and it has generated a new conception on education, fundamentally different from the one of the previous century. Its representatives, John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Edouard Claparede, Ovide Decroly, have promoted, compared to the traditional school, a child based education, not an education focused on the educator, but one that is centered on the needs of the child that is on the path of development, not on the educational content, and this is generating an authentic Copernican revolution in education. Essentially, the difference between the classic education and the new one consists of a range of elements: the terminology, the finality of the education, the methods, child related concepts, the role of the teacher, the discipline, but also the new authors. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK