[3] The New Education movement had its origins within post-First World War society, when a new social order was being constructed.
The movement included a number of schools, including the Malting House School, which focused mostly on improving the education experiences of their founders, such as through granting children more educational freedom.
The Fellowship had a publication named New Era, which it published until the 1940s, which brought other schools into experimental education.
[4] Adherents of the New Education Movement included Maria Montessori, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget.
[5] The New Education movement preached a theory (here simplified) of acknowledging children's personalities and building a better society.