Progressive Education Classics: Scott Nearings New Education Hardcover 2007-image
Progressive Education Classics: Scott Nearings New Education Hardcover 2007-image

Progressive Education Classics: Scott Nearings New Education Hardcover 2007

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Subject: General, History Subject Area: Education gtin13: 9781595582201 Number of Pages: 199 Pages Item Length: 8 in Type: Textbook TitleLeading: The Publication Name: New Education : Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today Item Weight: 13 Oz Author: Scott Nearing Item Height: 0.9 in brand: New Press, T.H.E. Language: English ISBN-13: 9781595582201 Publisher: New Press, T.H.E. Synopsis: 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., 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, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, 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. Series: Classics in Progressive Education Ser. Intended Audience: Trade Item Width: 5 in Format: Hardcover Publication Year: 2007 ISBN-10: 1595582207

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