Minding American Education Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning |
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Author:
| Bickman, Martin |
ISBN: | 978-0-8077-4352-2 |
Publication Date: | May 2003 |
Publisher: | Teachers College Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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This work is an examination of the idea of education as the active intellectual engagement of experience. Bickman revisits the works of Emerson, Mann, Alcott, Thoreau, Dewey, and two important yet often neglected early 19th-century women educators, Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller.
This work is an examination of the idea of education as the active intellectual engagement of experience. Bickman revisits the works of Emerson, Mann, Alcott, Thoreau, Dewey, and two important yet often neglected early 19th-century women educators, Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller.