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Women Educators in the Progressive Era: The Women behind Dewey's Laboratory School
Anne Durst
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Hardcover. This book explores the experiences and writings of four teachers at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, both to investigate their lives as female professionals during the Progressive era, and to add to our understanding of this innovative institution and how these philosophies and innovations have carried out to this day. Num Pages: 241 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNKH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
In 1896, John Dewey established the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago - an experimental school designed to test his ideas in the reality of classroom practice. Through a collective portrait of four of the school’s teachers Women Educators in the Progressive Era examines the struggles and satisfactions of teaching at this innovative school, and situates the school community in the context of Progressive Era experimental impulses in Chicago and the nation. This book reassesses the implications of Dewey’s ideas for current efforts to improve schools, as it explores how the Laboratory School teachers participated in inquiry designed to ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230610736
SKU
V9780230610736
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Ref
99-15
About Anne Durst
Anne Durst is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, USA.
Reviews for Women Educators in the Progressive Era: The Women behind Dewey's Laboratory School
"Durst has captured, in all its glory and messiness, the truly communal spirit of John Dewey's Lab School. Scouring the nation's archives for personal papers of four teachers, she has reconstructed the 'organic circuit' of learning and teaching at the Lab School, in which these teachers strove to achieve creativity and balance on issues of students' freedom, interests, and communal ... Read more