This document discusses Christian formation and education in the 20th century. It features photos of influential educational theorists like Maria Montessori and Jean Piaget. It also includes pictures documenting the progressive education movement in schools and Sunday school classes between 1900-1960, showing a shift from traditional classroom settings to more hands-on, experiential learning approaches. The photos provide a visual history of educational reforms and the expansion of organized religious instruction during this time period.

1. Christian Formation in the Twentieth Century

2. Alfred Binet (center)

3. Alfred Binet

4. Maria Montessori

5. Piaget with his parents and sisters

6. Piaget in early adolescence

7. As a student, University of Zurich

8. Piaget and his wife, Valentine

9. Piaget and his two daughters.

10. Piaget’s conservation exercise

11. Early in his career With schoolchildren Speaking with Prime Minister Nehru of India

12. Interior of Alexandra School, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1920

13. A group of 3 rd or 4 th grade scholars, 1919-1920.

14. Dewey’s Lab School, University of Chicago, as it appears today. University of Chicago.

15. Playhouse built by children at Dewey’s Lab School, University of Chicago, 1901. University of Chicago.

16. 3 rd and 4 th grade students in a clay modeling class, 1904 University of Chicago.

17. 6 th grade students dyeing and spinning wool, 1905. University of Chicago.

18. 1 st grade students grinding corn, 1901 University of Chicago.

19. High school boys building birdhouses, 1905. University of Chicago.

20. Birdhouses in Washington Park, Chicago, 1905.

21. Primary grade, Model School, Western Washington University, Bellingham, 1901

22. Progressive Education reached the public schools between 1900-1930

24. Lewis Hine photographed this girl at a mill in 1908, Newberry, S.C. National Archives.

25. “ Breakers” photographed at a Pennsylvania coal mine, Lewis Hines, c. 1900. Library of Congress.

26. Young girl working in the textile mill at Newberry, S.C., 1908. Photographed by Lewis Hine. National Archives.

27. Cotton picker, Oklahoma, 1916, by Lewis Hine. Museum of Contemporary Photography.

28. George Albert Coe (1862-1951)

29. Akron Plan Sunday School, Akron Ohio

30. Akron Plan interior, New Jersey. www.njchurchscape.com/Index-Nov05.html

31. Boys at Sunday School, Manzanar Camp, 1942.

32. Girls in Sunday School class, Manzanar Camp, 1942.

33. Sunday School for migrant farm workers’ children, 1940s

34. Migrant farm workers’ daughters in Sunday School class, 1940s.

35. Mt. Kisco, NY Presbyterian Church Sunday School, 1957.

36. Sunday School in a migrant camp, 1960.