A COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION OF TRADITIONAL AND PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION APPROACHES IN WILLY RUSSELL'S OUR DAY OUT

Our Day Out is a television play (also published in book form) which is written by Willy Russell to describe daily activities in a school in England in 1977. Russell gives place to traditional and progressive education approaches in the play. In this study, the educational approaches are compared and discussed based on the characters' views in the play. Document analysis method is used in the study as a qualitative research method. The results show that traditional education approach is associated with academic success, but the feelings and thoughts of the students are ignored, as well as the progressive education approach is associated with academic failure but students are valued in school and taken into consideration as individuals.