Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2009 M03 11 - 440 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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... curricular implications of postmodernism, have revisited pragmatism, seeking its wisdom on a wide variety of issues, in- cluding the nature of knowledge and intelligence, the cultural construc- tion of identity and language, the ...
... curricular implications of postmodernism, have revisited pragmatism, seeking its wisdom on a wide variety of issues, in- cluding the nature of knowledge and intelligence, the cultural construc- tion of identity and language, the ...
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... curriculum consisted of grammar , penmanship , arithmetic , algebra , Latin , Greek , drawing , and music in the first two years and added geometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, French, and an- 11 " A Voyage across the Atlantic " and ...
... curriculum consisted of grammar , penmanship , arithmetic , algebra , Latin , Greek , drawing , and music in the first two years and added geometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, French, and an- 11 " A Voyage across the Atlantic " and ...
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... curriculum was intended to prepare bright students for college, and Meiklejohn set his sights on that goal. According to the high school course announcement for 1888, Pawtucket's classical course was “sufficient to admit a pupil to ...
... curriculum was intended to prepare bright students for college, and Meiklejohn set his sights on that goal. According to the high school course announcement for 1888, Pawtucket's classical course was “sufficient to admit a pupil to ...
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... curriculum, Bronson pointed out that “the intellectual life of America was rising to a higher plane, chiefly under the stimulus of modern science; the scientific spirit was permeating every department of thought and arousing multitudes ...
... curriculum, Bronson pointed out that “the intellectual life of America was rising to a higher plane, chiefly under the stimulus of modern science; the scientific spirit was permeating every department of thought and arousing multitudes ...
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... curriculum seemed trapped “ be- tween two worlds . ” The first was a world of philological training and men- tal discipline , a world of character building and cultural refinement . The other was a realm of narrow specialization and ...
... curriculum seemed trapped “ be- tween two worlds . ” The first was a world of philological training and men- tal discipline , a world of character building and cultural refinement . The other was a realm of narrow specialization and ...
Contents
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To Whom Are We Responsible? 19201924 | 97 |
A New College with a New Idea 19251928 | 133 |
A Most Lamentable Comedy 19291932 | 165 |
A Fresh Start 19331940 | 199 |
A Reply to John Dewey 19411947 | 233 |
What Does the First Amendment Mean? 19481954 | 263 |
The Faith of a Free Man 19551964 | 296 |
Education and the Democratic IdealThe Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn | 329 |
Notes | 337 |
Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading | 391 |
Index | 403 |
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