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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... teacher. He had an uncommon ability to relate to students, to cultivate close bonds with colleagues, to lead people of all ages to realize their own best selves. To many, he was nothing short of an inspiration. “He can stir a sluggish ...
... teacher. He had an uncommon ability to relate to students, to cultivate close bonds with colleagues, to lead people of all ages to realize their own best selves. To many, he was nothing short of an inspiration. “He can stir a sluggish ...
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... teacher, he was actually quite shy. “His hesitant, at times almost timid air, is a pungent antidote for those who are afflicted with exalted ideas,” one eighteen-year-old Experimental College student noted. “His willingness to 'follow ...
... teacher, he was actually quite shy. “His hesitant, at times almost timid air, is a pungent antidote for those who are afflicted with exalted ideas,” one eighteen-year-old Experimental College student noted. “His willingness to 'follow ...
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... teach themselves — or at least imagine that they could teach them- selves — how to construct a good and just society . He was convinced that each succeeding generation had to re - create democracy practically from scratch , to summon it ...
... teach themselves — or at least imagine that they could teach them- selves — how to construct a good and just society . He was convinced that each succeeding generation had to re - create democracy practically from scratch , to summon it ...
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... teaching. Here, of course, was the basic dilemma that Socrates tried to solve by first highlighting and then hiding the kinds of teaching given by philosopher-kings. Dewey had good reasons for trying to avoid Socrates' surreptitious ...
... teaching. Here, of course, was the basic dilemma that Socrates tried to solve by first highlighting and then hiding the kinds of teaching given by philosopher-kings. Dewey had good reasons for trying to avoid Socrates' surreptitious ...
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... teaching freedom. How, they ask, is it possible to teach people to be free without compromising their subjective autonomy or their cultural in- tegrity in the process? As a multilayered examination of Meiklejohn's sig- nificance in the ...
... teaching freedom. How, they ask, is it possible to teach people to be free without compromising their subjective autonomy or their cultural in- tegrity in the process? As a multilayered examination of Meiklejohn's sig- nificance in the ...
Índice
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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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