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Author Tanner, Daniel, author.

Title Crusade for democracy : progressive education at the crossroads / Daniel Tanner.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
©2015

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Edition Revised edition.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Contents -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction to the First Edition -- I. On the Brink of Disaster -- II. The Formative Meetings -- Searching for a Name -- III. Origins and Connections -- The Teachers College Discussion Group and The John Dewey Society -- IV. The Last of the Founders -- V. Recollections and Retrospections -- Reconstructionists and Experimentalists -- Hard Times�From Economic Depression to Ideological Repression -- VI. The Letters
Ralph Winfred Tyler (1902�1994)Sidney Hook (1902�1989) -- Donald Perry Cottrell (1902�1991) -- Notes -- VII. This Ordeal of Democracy -- Textbook Censorship -- VIII. The John Dewey Society and The Social Frontier -- A Losing Struggle -- IX. The John Dewey Society and the Progressive Education Association -- The Proposed Merger -- The John Dewey Society and The American Education Fellowship -- X. The Problem of Purpose in the Postwar Period -- Seeking Ways to Strengthen Forces that are Working for Democracy -- Involvement of Educators at All Levels
Unique Role of The John Dewey SocietyProblems: Pervasive and Dangerous -- Too Controversial for The School Administrators -- Renewal of Purpose -- XI. New Directions -- Special Writing Grants -- John Dewey's Last Published Statement -- Education and Action for Democracy -- XII. Seeking to Save Progressive Education -- XIII. The Yearbooks -- The American Problem -- Age of Anxiety -- XIV. The Last of the Yearbooks and the Beginning of the Lecture Series -- XV. Perspectives and Prospects -- To Reclaim a Legacy -- Appendix
Founding Members of the John Dewey SocietyYearbooks of the John Dewey Society -- The John Dewey Memorial ASCD Lectures (Association for Supervision and Curricular Development) -- The John Dewey Lectures -- Notes -- Presidents of the John Dewey Society -- References -- About the Author -- Name Index -- Subject Index
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Subject John Dewey Society -- History.
John Dewey Society.
History.
Progressive education -- United States.
Progressive education.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author John Dewey Society.
Other Form: Print version: Tanner, Daniel. Crusade for democracy. Revised edition 9781438456461 (OCoLC)907630553
ISBN 9781438456478 (electronic book)
1438456476 (electronic book)
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