Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964Univ of Wisconsin Press, 11/03/2009 - 440 páginas 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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... Asserting that Dewey simply “took democracy for granted,” Meiklejohn believed he had found the Achilles' heel of prag- matist-progressivist educational theory. Education always entailed author- ity, he argued. The crucial question was ...
... Asserting that Dewey simply “took democracy for granted,” Meiklejohn believed he had found the Achilles' heel of prag- matist-progressivist educational theory. Education always entailed author- ity, he argued. The crucial question was ...
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... asserted that “the problem of social reconstruction is based on the faith that we can find truth and that there are ways of doing things which can be found. Let the college stand for that faith.”4 Admittedly, from a twenty-first-century ...
... asserted that “the problem of social reconstruction is based on the faith that we can find truth and that there are ways of doing things which can be found. Let the college stand for that faith.”4 Admittedly, from a twenty-first-century ...
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... asserted that political speechmaking constituted a profoundly educational activity, an ideal opportunity for citizens to discuss matters of significant public concern. As Meiklejohn put it, political speeches were “an elevating and ...
... asserted that political speechmaking constituted a profoundly educational activity, an ideal opportunity for citizens to discuss matters of significant public concern. As Meiklejohn put it, political speeches were “an elevating and ...
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... asserted in his presidential report for 1890 , “ the power to think clearly , reason logically , analyze keenly , and generalize truthfully — in a word , to be master of one's self intellectually — is an attainment infinitely superior ...
... asserted in his presidential report for 1890 , “ the power to think clearly , reason logically , analyze keenly , and generalize truthfully — in a word , to be master of one's self intellectually — is an attainment infinitely superior ...
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... asserted that all knowledge derives from individual—and thus radically differentiated—experience, Kant argued that the meaning of experience derives from transcendental—and thus perfectly unified— reason. According to Kant, reason ...
... asserted that all knowledge derives from individual—and thus radically differentiated—experience, Kant argued that the meaning of experience derives from transcendental—and thus perfectly unified— reason. According to Kant, reason ...
Índice
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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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