Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964

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University of Wisconsin Press, 2001 M04 17 - 436 pages

This definitive biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and Wisconsin’s “Experimental College” in the early twentieth century and his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era. The central question Meiklejohn asked throughout his life’s work remains essential today: How can education teach citizens to be free?

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PROVIDENCE 18721911
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College Education and the Moral Ideal 19001911
33
AMHERST 19121924
67
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Adam R. Nelson is associate professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools, 1950–1985.

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