Democracy and schooling in California: the legacy of Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds
Weiler, Kathleen
This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordinary women, Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Seeds, the Director of the University Elementary school at UCLA between 1925 and 1957. KATHLEEN WEILERProfessor in the Department of Education at Tufts University, USA. INDICE: 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 - The Long Retreat from Democratic Education -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-33824-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 23/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés