Review of The Activity Movement

Abstract

Reviews the book, The Activity Movement by Clyde Hissong (see record 1932-03387-000 ). That the principles of Progressive Education were centuries in evolving, Clyde Hissong, in his "The Activity Movement", attributes to the fact that educationists from Rousseau to Dewey were handicapped by the lack of fundamental facts and principles of human nature upon which to base their philosophies. Following a careful analysis of the theories of Rousseau, Herbart, G. Stanley Hall, Thorndike, and modern biology, he arrives at the conclusion that the last named "points toward a unitary organism interacting within the environment" as being in harmony with the principles of the activity movement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)