Lillian Weber
Her work in the 1970s produced a core of kindergarten teachers who would radicalize teaching and teacher education in the public schools. Her Open Corridor program at City College, a progressive think tank for teachers intent on self-examination and schoolwide change, was her most significant contribution.
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From Lillian Weber: the idea of learning as active, individual and uneven. From her, the idea of learning always embedded in human relationships; intimately scaled, and diverse. From her: access to children and adults beyond the classroom and grade. From her: the idea of wholeness and the individual in each child. And holistic curriculum undivided into subject areas but organized around children's questions.
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The monographs and articles from the Workshop Center represent major contributions to progressive pedagogy and its documentation. Evidence of Kohl's claim that we don't need to reinvent history. But that it is there for those who seek it.