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The New Education: Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today Paperback - 2007

by Scott Nearing; Foreword by Herbert Kohl


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Best known for his paean to self-sufficiency, Living the Good Life, which became a bestseller that Newsweek called an underground bible for the city-weary, Scott Nearing was also a high-profile public advocate for education reform at the start of the Progressive era. Lamenting that public schools had failed to keep up with societal changes, Nearing traveled the country during the early decades of the twentieth century, documenting schools that had abandoned a traditional authoritarian stance in favor of child-centered practice. Now the vignettes, interviews, and speculations on school restructuring, curriculum development, and educational reform that he offered in The New Education a century ago are relevant once again.

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  • Title The New Education: Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today
  • Author Scott Nearing; Foreword by Herbert Kohl
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 199
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2007-12
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781595582096 / 1595582096
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.41 x 5.71 x 0.64 in (21.36 x 14.50 x 1.63 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Education
  • Dewey Decimal Code 370

About the author

Scott Nearing was born in 1883 and died in 1983. He was an educator, peace activist, conservationist, simple-living advocate, and antiracist worker, as well as the author or co-author of several bestselling books.
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