Dewey's laboratory school : lessons for today

Author(s)

• Tanner, Laurel N.
• Jackson, Philip W. (Philip Wesley)

Bibliographic Information

Dewey's laboratory school : lessons for today

Laurel N. Tanner ; foreword by Philip W. Jackson

Teachers College Press, c1997

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Laurel Tanner examines closely the practices and policies of Dewey's Laboratory School from its inception to the current day. There are extensive excerpts from the school's teachers' reports and other original records, and the volume provides a wealth of practical guidance on how schools today can introduce Deweyan reforms the way they were originally - and successfully - practised.

Table of Contents

• The Forgotten Ideal
• Dewey's Developmental Curriculum - an Idea for the 21st Century
• the Teacher's Reports
• Administration and Supervision
• Dewey's School as a Learning Community
• what have we learned from Dewey's School?
• Looking at Reform the Dewey Way. (Part contents)

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Details

• NCID: BA31982274
• ISBN:
  • 0807736198
  • 080773618X
• LCCN: 96040141
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 200 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : LD7501.C428
  • DC21 : 372.9773/11
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : University of Chicago. University Elementary School -- History
  • LCSH : Education -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Experimental methods -- History
  • LCSH : Dewey, John, 1859-1952