Description
Book SynopsisThe second edition of
Schools of Tomorrow, Schools of Today: Progressive Education in the 21st Century documents a new collection of child-centered progressive schools founded in the first half of the twentieth century and provides histories of some contemporary examples of progressive practices. Part I discusses six progressive schools founded in the first part of the twentieth century (City and Country; Dalton; the Weekday School at Riverside Church; The Laboratory School at the Institute of Child Study; Alabama State Teachers College Laboratory High School; and Highlander), tracing them from their beginnings. Part II examines four more contemporary schools (Central Park East 1; Central Park East Secondary; Learning Community Charter School; and KIPP TEAM Academy), showing how progressive practices gained momentum from the 1960s onward. As a volume in the History of Schools and Schooling series, this book seeks to look to the past for what it can teach us today.
Table of ContentsContents: Susan F. Semel/Alan R. Sadovnik/Ryan W. Coughlan: Introduction – Susan F. Semel: The City and Country School: A Progressive Paradigm – Susan F. Semel: The Dalton School: The Transformation of a Progressive School – Amita Gupta: The Weekday School at Riverside Church: Progressive Education in a Religious Institution – Theodore M. Christou/Panayiotes Tryphonopoulos: The Laboratory School at the Institute of Child Study: Child Study as Progressive Education in Ontario – Sharon G. Pierson: «A Laboratory of Learning»: Alabama State Teachers College Laboratory High School – Laura M. Westhoff: «The Answers Come from the People»: Education for Democracy at Highlander Folk School – Bruce Kanze: Central Park East (CPE 1): An Experiment in Public Progressive Education – Alia R. Tyner-Mullings: Enter the Alternative School: The Life of Central Park East Secondary School – Elizabeth S. Brown: The Learning Community Charter School: The Founding and Evolution of a Progressive Charter School – Andrew R. Ratner/Ali Nagle: A Look into KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program): Culture through the Prism of Progressive Schools – Susan F. Semel/Alan R. Sadovnik/Ryan W. Coughlan: Progressive Education: Lessons from the Past and Present.
