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Democracy and schooling in California : the legacy of Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds
- Title
- Democracy and schooling in California : the legacy of Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds / Kathleen Weiler.
- Author
- Weiler, Kathleen.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LA243 .W45 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 286 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through a joint biography of Helen Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Corinne Seeds, the Director of the University Elementary school at UCLA between 1925 and 1957. They were nationally recognized as leaders of the progressive education movement and prominent figures in the attempt to put the ideals of progressive education into practice in a state-wide system of public education in the United States.
- Series Statement
- Historical studies in education
- Uniform Title
- Historical studies in education
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Working girls of the golden west -- The child and the curriculum -- Dare the school build a new social order? -- Was progressive education progressive? -- Love and war -- Prejudice -- The battle of Westwood Hills -- Exporting democracy/defending democracy -- Progressive education is subverting America -- How to teach the California child -- Epilogue: the long retreat from democratic education.
- ISBN
- 9780230338241
- 0230338240
- LCCN
- 2011024116
- OCLC
- ocn733546637
- 733546637
- SCSB-1626851
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library