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The Paideia proposal : an educational manifesto

Title
The Paideia proposal : an educational manifesto / Mortimer J. Adler, on behalf of the members of the Paideia Group.
Author
Adler, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Jerome), 1902-2001
Publication
  • New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, [1982]
  • ©1982

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Additional Authors
Paideia Group.
Description
xii, 84 pages; 22 cm
Summary
A K-12 educational reform plan developed as the result of a two year study by the Paideia Group.
Subject
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • Education > Aims and objectives > United States
  • Educational equalization > United States
  • Education > Philosophy
  • Education
  • Education > Aims and objectives
  • Education > Philosophy
  • Educational equalization
  • Curriculumreform
  • Erziehungsphilosophie
  • Humanistische Bildung
  • Schulreform
  • Öffentliche Schule
  • Schulreform
  • Erziehungsphilosophie
  • Humanistische Bildung
  • Curriculumreform
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Note
  • First vol. of the author's trilogy; the 2nd of which is Paideia problems and possibilities, and the 3rd of which is The Paideia program.
Contents
pt. 1: The schooling of a people. Democracy and education -- Schooling-only a part of education -- pt. 2: The essentials of basic schooling. The same objectives for all -- The same course of study for all -- Overcoming initial impediments -- Individual differences -- pt. 3: Teaching and learning. The heart of the matter -- The preparation of teachers -- The principal -- pt. 4: Beyond basic schooling. Higher learning -- Earning a living and living well -- The future of our free institutions.
ISBN
  • 0020641001
  • 9780020641001
  • 0025002406
  • 9780025002401
LCCN
82007169
OCLC
  • ocm08386670
  • 8386670
  • SCSB-67759
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library