Women Educators in the Progressive Era

A. Durst

ISBN 10: 0230610730 / ISBN 13: 9780230610736

Editore: SPRINGER NATURE Aug 2010, 2010

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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 advance educational thought and practice. 241 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Women Educators in the Progressive Era
• Editore: SPRINGER NATURE Aug 2010
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0230610730
• ISBN 13: 9780230610736
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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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 advance educational thought and practice.

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Anne Durst is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, USA.

Anne Durst is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, USA.