The Modern School Movement
Subtitle: Anarchism And Education In The United States
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2006-01-30
Place of publication: Oakland, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781904859093
Subjects: Anarchism; Education; General; Educational Policy & Reform; Education / Teaching; United States; USA; History; Education / General; 20th century; Educators; Experimental methods; Philosophy; Political activity
Description: Based on extensive interviews with former pupils and teachers, this Pulitzer Prize-nominated work is a seminal and important investigation into the potential of educational alternatives.

Between 1910 and 1960 anarchists across the United States established more than twenty schools where children might study in an atmosphere of freedom and self-reliance in contrast to the formality and discipline of the traditional classroom. These "Modern Schools" sought to abolish all forms of authority and to usher in a new society based on the voluntary cooperation of free individuals. Their object, during an era of war, social ferment, and government repression, was to create not only a new type of school, but also a new world. Among the participants were Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Berkman, and artist Man Ray.

This book is widely considered (including by the author himself!) to be Avrich's finest work.

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Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: i; title: Preface
pagenum: iii; title: PART I: NEW YORK; label: 1
title: The Martyrdom of Ferrer
pagenum: 3; title: Francisco Ferrer y Guardia; title: Freedom in Education; title: The Escuela Moderna of Barcelona; title: Propaganda by the Deed; title: The Tragic Week; label: 2
title: The Francisco Ferrer Association
pagenum: 37; title: Launching an Organization; title: The Modern School Movement; title: Earlier Experimental Schools; title: The First Modern Schools; label: 3
title: The Ferrer School of New York
pagenum: 75; title: St. Mark's Place; title: East Twelfth Street; title: Will Durant; title: East 107th Street; title: Will and Ariel; title: Cora Bennett Stephenson; label: 4
title: Rebels and Artists
pagenum: 121; title: The Academy Humane; title: Personalities; title: Hippolyte and Sadakichi; title: Radical Centers; title: Art and Anarchy; title: The Free Theatre; title: Robert Henri; title: The Modernists; title: The Modern School Magazine; label: 5
title: Three Anarchists
pagenum: 183; title: Leonard Abbott; title: Harry Kelly; title: Joseph Cohen; label: 6
title: Lexington Avenue
pagenum: 203; title: The Unemployed; title: Ludlow; title: Dynamite; title: The Hutchinsons; title: Aftermath; title: PART II: STELTON; label: 7
title: The Early Years
pagenum: 241; title: Pioneers; title: Stony Ford; title: The Stelton School; title: Joseph Ishill; title: The Dicks; title: Time of Troubles; label: 8
title: Elizabeth and Alexis Ferm
pagenum: 281; title: Aunty Ferm; title: Uncle Ferm; title: The Children's Playhouse; title: Stelton; title: Departure; label: 9
title: Mohegan
pagenum: 317; title: A New Colony; title: The Mohegan School; title: George Seldes and Rudolf Rocker; title: Thoreauvian Anarchists; title: Breakup; label: 10
title: The Declining Years
pagenum: 341; title: The Dicks; title: The Ferms; title: The Movement; title: Abbott, Kelly, and Cohen; label: 11
title: Conclusior
pagenum: 383; title: Archival Materials
pagenum: 387; title: Index
pagenum: 410