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The Paideia program : an educational syllabus

Title
The Paideia program : an educational syllabus / Mortimer J. Adler ; essays by the Paideia Group ; preface and introduction by Mortimer J. Adler.
Author
Adler, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Jerome), 1902-2001
Publication
New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1984.

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Additional Authors
Paideia Group.
Description
xii, 238 pages; 21 cm
Subject
  • Basic education > Curricula > United States
  • Education
  • Basic education > Curricula
  • Öffentliche Schule
  • Lehrplanreform
  • Grundschulpädagogik
  • Curriculum
  • United States
  • USA
Note
  • Third vol. of the author's trilogy; the 1st of which is The Paideia proprosal, and the 2nd of which is Paideia problems and possibilities.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 185-238.
Contents
The conduct of seminars / Mortimer Adler -- Coaching / Theodore Sizer -- Didactic instruction / Mortimer Adler -- English language and literature / Geraldine Van Doren -- Mathematics / Charles Van Doren -- Science / Donald Cowan -- History / Jacques Barzun -- Social studies / Adele Simmons -- A foreign language / Geraldine Van Doren -- The fine arts / John Van Doren -- The manual arts / James O'Toole -- The world of work / James O'Toole -- Physical education / James O'Toole -- How a Paideia school should be structures / Dennis Gray -- How to recognize a Paideia school / Mortimer Adler -- A note on grading and the paradox of present practice / Mortimer Adler.
ISBN
  • 0020130406
  • 9780020130406
  • 0025003003
  • 9780025003002
LCCN
84014338
OCLC
  • ocm10912468
  • 10912468
  • SCSB-8918165
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library