School was our life [electronic resource] : remembering progressive education

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서명/저자사항	School was our life [electronic resource]: remembering progressive education / Jane Roland Martin ; foreword by Estelle R. Jorgensen.
개인저자	Martin, Jane Roland, 1929- author. Jorgensen, Estelle Ruth.
발행사항	Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, [2018].
형태사항	1 online resource.
총서사항	Counterpoints: music and education
기타형태 저록	Print version: Martin, Jane Roland, 1929- School was our life. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018] 9780253033017
ISBN	9780253033055 0253033055
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Remembering Little Red -- Child-friendly schools -- The "we've been there and done it" fantasy -- Close encounters of an educational kind -- Buried treasure.
요약	"The late 1930s and early 1940s was the peak of progressive education in the United States, and Elisabeth Irwin's Little Red School House in New York City was iconic in that movement. For the first time, stories and recollections from students who attended Little Red during this era have been collected by author Jane Roland Martin. Now in their late eighties, these classmates can still sing the songs they learned in elementary school and credit the progressive education they loved with shaping their outlooks and life trajectories. Martin frames these stories from the former students "tell it like it was" point of view with philosophical commentary, bringing to light the underpinnings of the kind of progressive education employed at Little Red and commenting critically on the endeavor. In a time when the role of the arts in education and public schooling itself are under attack in the United States, Martin makes a case for a different style of education designed for the defense of democracy and expresses hope that an education like hers can become an opportunity for all"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(단체명)	Little Red School House (New York, N.Y.) --History.
일반주제명	Progressive education --New York (State) --New York --History --20th century. EDUCATION / Essays. EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions. EDUCATION / Reference.
분류기호(DDC)	370.97471
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