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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... Civil Liberties Committee in New York City, December 1963 323 Alexander Meiklejohn and Norman Thomas share a laugh at the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee dinner, December 1963 324 Alexander Meiklejohn receiving an honorary degree at ...
... Civil Liberties Committee in New York City, December 1963 323 Alexander Meiklejohn and Norman Thomas share a laugh at the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee dinner, December 1963 324 Alexander Meiklejohn receiving an honorary degree at ...
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... Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, I appreciated the time and openness of Ann Fagan Ginger. For providing the gracious surroundings in which I composed most of my dissertation, I owe special thanks to the staff of the John Nicholas ...
... Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, I appreciated the time and openness of Ann Fagan Ginger. For providing the gracious surroundings in which I composed most of my dissertation, I owe special thanks to the staff of the John Nicholas ...
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... Civil War, when a sharp drop in cotton imports caused British mills to buckle, thousands of workers had emigrated overseas. Dozens of enterprising Scots had started new mills abroad or bought factories from American families weakened by ...
... Civil War, when a sharp drop in cotton imports caused British mills to buckle, thousands of workers had emigrated overseas. Dozens of enterprising Scots had started new mills abroad or bought factories from American families weakened by ...
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... Civil War and lost an eye in the siege of Petersburg in 1864. The son of a Baptist minister, he had graduated from Baptist-affiliated Brown in 1870 and, like other aspiring academics and future college presidents of the mid-nineteenth ...
... Civil War and lost an eye in the siege of Petersburg in 1864. The son of a Baptist minister, he had graduated from Baptist-affiliated Brown in 1870 and, like other aspiring academics and future college presidents of the mid-nineteenth ...
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Índice
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33 | |
61 | |
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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