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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The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964 Adam R. Nelson. For my family: Mom, Dad, and Matt Should you ask me what the relation is between liberal.
The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964 Adam R. Nelson. For my family: Mom, Dad, and Matt Should you ask me what the relation is between liberal.
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... liberal education and democracy, the answer would be easy: they are the same thing. Alexander Meiklejohn “Education and Democracy,” 1923 One of the deepest and most active convictions just now in our . . . society is this: that there is ...
... liberal education and democracy, the answer would be easy: they are the same thing. Alexander Meiklejohn “Education and Democracy,” 1923 One of the deepest and most active convictions just now in our . . . society is this: that there is ...
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... liberal education could actually create a more just and equitable democracy. For Alexander Meiklejohn, the relationship between education and democracy rested on a paradox—a paradox linked directly to the moral and intellectual ...
... liberal education could actually create a more just and equitable democracy. For Alexander Meiklejohn, the relationship between education and democracy rested on a paradox—a paradox linked directly to the moral and intellectual ...
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... liberal education and democracy in an ideal republican state . He believed that education must precede democracy and , further , that citizens must ulti- mately teach themselves — or at least imagine that they could teach them- selves ...
... liberal education and democracy in an ideal republican state . He believed that education must precede democracy and , further , that citizens must ulti- mately teach themselves — or at least imagine that they could teach them- selves ...
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... liberals and even socialists throughout their long lives, but the two men differed dramatically in their approaches to ... liberal unless it were wholly democratic from the outset, Meiklejohn put education be- fore democracy, insisting ...
... liberals and even socialists throughout their long lives, but the two men differed dramatically in their approaches to ... liberal unless it were wholly democratic from the outset, Meiklejohn put education be- fore democracy, insisting ...
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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