Women Educators in the Progressive Era: The Women Behind Dewey's Laboratory School

by Anne Durst

Book Overview

In 1896, John Dewey established the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago - an experimental school designed to test his ideas in the reality of classroom practice. Through a collective portrait of four of the school's teachers Women Educators in the Progressive Era examines the struggles and satisfactions of teaching at this innovative school, and situates the school community in the context of Progressive Era experimental impulses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137575948
• ISBN13: 9781137575944
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"