Witness the hope and failure of democratic education

Author: Fersterling
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: This book is a compilation of a series of papers published by the author from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. It is an anthology of essays on American democratic education, focusing on the various practical activities and reforms in school education carried out by the United States in its pursuit of the ideals of educational democracy. Several of the essays were written by the author while he served as an editor for The New Republic magazine in the 1960s and 1970s, while the more recent articles reflect the author's experiences teaching at Michigan State University. The book also includes essays on the educational philosophies of Dewey and Rousseau, urban schools in the United States, civil rights, and the work of the teachers the author admires.