Minding American education : reclaiming the tradition of active learning / Martin Bickman.
This book presents an antidote to the self-destructive war between educational conservatives and progressives, arguing that each has only part of the solution in what should be a productive dialectic between experience and concepts--Outlines the rich tradition of educational thought we have already...
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Teachers College Press,
℗♭2003.
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Table of Contents:
- The American scholar vs. American schools: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Horace Mann
- Romantic wholism: education as reintegration
- Philosophy descending: James Marsh and Bronson Alcott
- Varieties of transcendentalist teaching: Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau
- The turbulent embrace of thinking: prose style and the languages of education
- Uniting the child and the curriculum: John Dewey
- Education by poetry: pedagogy and the arts in early modernism
- Opening classrooms and minds: the 1960s and 1970s
- Enacting the active mind: teaching English, teaching teaching.