Challenging the giant
Subtitle: the best of EKOÊ, the journal of alternative education
By: Mary M. Leue, editor.
Contributors: Leue, Mary M.
Series: Journal of alternative education
Publisher: Down-To-Earth Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Free schools; Education -- Experimental methods; Education -- Aims and objectives; Education -- Philosophy; Home schooling -- United States
Notes: Collection of writings from the alternative education community.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: First days of Shaker Mountain School / Jerry Mintz; title: Subleties of a democratic school - Sudbury Valley School / Dan Greenberg; title: Metropolitan School of Columbus: a twenty year perspective on alternative schools, from one person's experience / Lucia Vorys; title: The history of the free school / Mary Leue; title: L'Ecole d'Humanite; learning without fear / Ernst Scagnet; title: Central Park East: an alternative story / Deborah Meier; title: "To live (and thus to learn) these truths": teaching the American constitution / Dave Lehman; title: Learning, relationship and 'burnout,' / Rosalie Angela Bianchi; title: Alternative schools in early America / Ron Miller; title: Alternative and conventional education from the viewpoint of a user / Sam McPheeters; title: Coalition as community / Chris Mercogliano; title: Homeschooling and John Holt's vision / Pat Farenga; title: Robots building robots? / Mary Leue; title: Children's theater / Chris Mercogliano; title: Refuting Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences / Dave Lehman; title: Educating for peace / Phil Gang; title: Why schools don't educate / John Gatto; title: The energetic starvation of children / Alan J. Schwartz; title: A humanitarian is always a hypocrite / Terry Doran; title: Children at risk / Jonathan Kozol; title: The pulse of learning / Robert Lewis; title: The art of doing nothing / Hanna Greenberg; title: An education money can't buy / Gene Lehman; title: Movement in education / Davids McNamee; title: Grandmother / Jenifer Miller; title: Mandi bus station / Mary Leue; title: Where do I begin / Meighan Carivan; title: Haikus: Fanon Frazier, David Daniels, Libby Carivan; title: Jean Piaget, B.F. Skinner and John Dewey, a study of learning, teaching and schooling / Rosalie Angela Bianchi; title: A comparison of schooling and home schooling / Brian Ray.