Democracy and schooling in California
Subtitle: the legacy of Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds
By: Kathleen Weiler
Series: Historical studies in education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780230338241
Subjects: Progressive education; Education; Democracy and education; History
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Working girls of the golden west; title: The child and the curriculum; title: Dare the school build a new social order?; title: Was progressive education progressive?; title: Love and war; title: Prejudice; title: The battle of Westwood Hills; title: Exporting democracy/defending democracy; title: Progressive education is subverting America; title: How to teach the California child; title: Epilogue: the long retreat from democratic education.