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Guliyakhina, E. S. Origins of Public Education in the USA: Josef Niff’s Teaching Activity

Abstract: The article is devoted to teaching activity o Josef Niff who materialized Pestalozzi’s ideas into socio-cultural reality of the New World during the first half of the 19th century. The article studies contribution o an American teacher into transformation of teaching about nature-based education, defines the main socio-cultural factors of his activity and provides a comparative analysis of Pestalozzi’s and Niff’s pedagogical conceptions.


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pedagogy, history, education, USA, Josef Niff, Pestalozzi, innovator, William MackLurr, feudalism.


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