The Experimental CollegeUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2001 - 421 pages First published in 1932, The Experimental College is the record of a radical experiment in university education. Established at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1927 by innovative educational theorist Alexander Meiklejohn, the "Experimental College" itself was to be a small, intensive, residence-based program within the larger university that provided a core curriculum of liberal education for the first two years of college. "Alexander Meiklejohn's significance in the history of American education stems largely from his willingness to put ideas into action. He tested abstract philosophical theories in concrete institutional practice. The Experimental College reveals the dreams as well as the defeats of a deeply idealistic reformer. By asking sharp questions about enduring purposes of liberal democratic education, Meiklejohn presents a message that is meaningful and useful in any age."--Adam Nelson author of Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn |
Contents
THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT AND | 119 |
THE PRINCIPLE AT WORK | 143 |
GAINS AND LOSSES | 152 |
ADVISERS AND PUPILS | 172 |
THe Health of thE COMMUNITY | 213 |
THE HEALTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL | 229 |
A POSSIBLE ORGANIZATION OF | 245 |
RECOMMENDATIONS | 313 |
ACTION BY THE ADVISERS | 323 |
COĆPERATIONS | 371 |
245 | 406 |