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Minding American education : reclaiming the tradition of active learning

This book presents an antidote to the self-destructive war between educational conservatives and progressives, arguing that each has only part of the solution in what should be a productive dialectic between experience and concepts--Outlines the rich tradition of educational thought we have already created in this country, suggesting ways to apply it to our current reform efforts--Provides a new paradigm for re-conceptualizing our educational past, urging us to move in the direction of our best and most characteristic literary and philosophical thinkers--Critiques the usual academic discourse on education and suggests alternatives through his lively and direct style
Print Book, English, ©2003
Teachers College Press, New York, ©2003
History
ix, 182 pages ; 23 cm
9780807743522, 9780807743539, 0807743526, 0807743534
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The American scholar vs. American schools: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Horace Mann
Romantic wholism: education as reintegration
Philosophy descending: James Marsh and Bronson Alcott
Varieties of transcendentalist teaching: Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau
The turbulent embrace of thinking: prose style and the languages of education
Uniting the child and the curriculum: John Dewey
Education by poetry: pedagogy and the arts in early modernism
Opening classrooms and minds: the 1960s and 1970s
Enacting the active mind: teaching English, teaching teaching