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progressive

1. favouring or promoting political or social reform through government action, or even revolution, to improve the lot of the majority
2. denoting or relating to an educational system that allows flexibility in learning procedures, based on activities determined by the needs and capacities of the individual child, the aim of which is to integrate academic with social development
3. (of a tax or tax system) graduated so that the rate increases relative to the amount taxed
4. (esp of a disease) advancing in severity, complexity, or extent
5. (of a dance, card game, etc.) involving a regular change of partners after one figure, one game, etc.
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It also has a Progressivism score, which is the result of subtracting the average degree of endorsement for the binding foundations (In-group/Loyalty, Authority/Respect, and Purity/Sanctity) from the individualizing foundations (Harm/Care & Fairness/Reciprocity).
Moral Beliefs Concerning Gender Equality and Progressivism
Those who conceive the "left in Argentina" based on the great principles of the left (N5) have a weaker positive correlation, than the one in Table 2, between the two conservative dimensions of PI and "right" self-placement, while the inverse correlation of "right" self-placement with Multicultural and Rights-based Progressivism becomes stronger.
Relationships between Political Ideology and cognitive schemas about "the left" in Argentina
Similarly, David Tyack observed that during the early twentieth century, "'progressivism' in education was a label that was loosely applied to diverse reformers, philosophies, and practices" (Tyack 1974, 196).
THE PRAGMATIC PROGRESSIVES
The editors insist that Progressivism is now on the defensive as a result of contemporary conservatives laying siege to it.
HUNDRED YEARS' WAR: The Progressives Century: Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State
One reason that turn-of-the-century Progressivism lost its attractiveness as a self-label was its inextricable linkage to the disaster of alcohol prohibition.
Progressive puritans: from e-cigarettes to sex classifieds, the once-transgressive left tries to criminalize fun
She examines this so-called "progressive" era first in terms of its spectatorship, then compares progressivism and early feature films, and examines the new consciousness of self-celebrity amongst actors and directors.
Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917
Progressives were divided into those who saw progressivism through the lens of "child study and development," those who were interested in promoting "social efficiency and industrial order," and those whose primary concern was "social meliorism and cooperation." (7) In exploring these three "orientations" (7) of progressive education, Christou argues that progressive education must be understood both in terms of common pedagogical beliefs and in terms of the differing ways in which these beliefs were interpreted in widely different ways by those with different educational agendas.
Theodore Michael Christou, Progressive Education: Revisioning and Reframing Ontario's Public Schools, 1919- 1942
The problem is that progressivism has corrupted both parties--and the federal government has become ineffective.
America's Way Back
AMERICA'S WAY BACK: RECLAIMING FREEDOM, TRADITION, AND CONSTITUTION is all about evolving social and political values in modern America, and posits the idea that progressivism has corrupted modern political thinking in both parties.
America's Way Back
Our progressivism can help us transport to the Red Planet.
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