Vaclav Prihoda, Stanislav Vrana alleged pragmatism of the experimental municipal school in Zlin

Abstract

Vaclav Příhoda and his the academic career, his analysis of texts in the field of education between the wars and attempts at educational reform; his confrontation with American pragmatism. The emergence and development of experimental schools in Zlin under the direction of Stanislav Vrana.

Characteristics of the Czech educational version of pragmatism.

Keywords

• Pragmatism
• experimental schools
• education reform
• Zlin School
• meliorismus
• Protestant ethic