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The New Education: Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today

Herbert R. Kohl

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Best known for his paean to self-sufficiency, Living the Good Life, which became a bestseller that Newsweek called “an underground bible for the city-weary,” Scott Nearing was also a high-profile public advocate for education reform at the start of the Progressive era. Lamenting that public schools had failed to keep up with societal changes, Nearing traveled the country during the early decades of the twentieth century, documenting schools that had abandoned a traditional authoritarian stance in favor of child-centered practice. Now the vignettes, interviews, and speculations on school restructuring, curriculum development, and educational reform that he offered in The New Education a century ago are relevant once again.

Language: English

Pages: 199

Format: Paperback

Publisher: The New Press

Release: December 30, 2007

ISBN: 1595582096

ISBN 13: 9781595582096

The New Education: Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today

Herbert R. Kohl

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Best known for his paean to self-sufficiency, Living the Good Life, which became a bestseller that Newsweek called “an underground bible for the city-weary,” Scott Nearing was also a high-profile public advocate for education reform at the start of the Progressive era. Lamenting that public schools had failed to keep up with societal changes, Nearing traveled the country during the early decades of the twentieth century, documenting schools that had abandoned a traditional authoritarian stance in favor of child-centered practice. Now the vignettes, interviews, and speculations on school restructuring, curriculum development, and educational reform that he offered in The New Education a century ago are relevant once again.

Language: English

Pages: 199

Format: Paperback

Publisher: The New Press

Release: December 30, 2007

ISBN: 1595582096

ISBN 13: 9781595582096

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