Re: Origin of phrase "teachable moment"?

From: Ken Goodman (kgoodman@u.arizona.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 10:24:55 PST


Yetta Goodman has been searching for roots of "teachable moment" and has
found it in the early progressive education writings (1st quarter of the
century)- which would of course include the Bank Street folks. She has
yet to find a source for the phrase cited in any use of it. It's
possible that Dewey may have used the phrase first.

Ken Goodman



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