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Crusade for Democracy : Progressive Education at the Crossroads by Daniel Tanner (2015, Trade Paperback, Revised edition)

Attacks on public schools and efforts to impose nationalizing "reforms" are no less threatening today than they were during the era of progressive education under the conditions that gave rise to the John Dewey Society. Crusade for Democracy, Second Edition , tells the fascinating story of the Progressive Education movement of the 1930s and 1940s, whose core is the founding and early activities of the John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture. In a compelling narrative, Daniel Tanner details, through close examination of the scholarly literature and heretofore unexamined archival materials, the colorful personalities and powerful philosophies of this group of educators who worked from the conviction that the struggle and growth of American democracy could not be conducted apart from the public schools. The issues to which the Society directed its attention are, he argues, perennial ones--the appropriate relationship between school and society, the purpose of education in a democracy, social inequality, textbook censorship, academic freedom, and so on. In this new edition, Tanner points to such recent phenomena as charter schools, testing mandates, and narrowed "core standards" curricula as raising the question of whether the John Dewey Society is losing its way, becoming just another philosophical society, or whether it will reclaim its legacy by advancing the democratic prospect for school and society.

Author
Daniel Tanner
Publication Name
Crusade for Democracy : Progressive Education at the Crossroads
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
190 Pages

Lc Classification Number
L13.J64t36 2015
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Table of Content
Preface to the Revised Edition Foreword to the First Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction to the First Edition I. On the Brink of Disaster II. The Formative Meetings III. Origins and Connections IV. The Last of the Founders V. Recollections and Retrospections VI. The Letters VII. This Ordeal of Democracy VIII. The John Dewey Society and The Social Frontier IX. The John Dewey Society and the Progressive Education Association X. The Problem of Purpose in the Postwar Period XI. New Directions XII. Seeking to Save Progressive Education XIII. The Yearbooks XIV. The Last of the Yearbooks and the Beginning of the Lecture Series XV. Perspectives and Prospects Appendix Founding Members of the John Dewey Society Yearbooks of the John Dewey Society The John Dewey Memorial ASCD Lectures (Association for Supervision and Curricular Development) The John Dewey Lectures Presidents of the John Dewey Society A Society for the Study of Education in its Social Relationships References About the Author Name Index Subject Index
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
History
Lccn
2014-027110
Dewey Decimal
370.1
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Education

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