Details

Description

x, 180 pages ; 21 cm.

Series

A Spectrum book, S-271

Spectrum book ; S-271.

Contents

The need for affirmative education -- Review of the Carnegie Commission report / William K. Stevens -- Youth in the technological era / Barry N. Schwartz -- The basis of affirmative education -- How children fail / John Holt -- Crap-detecting / Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner -- What is education? / George Leonard -- Persons and experience / R.D. Laing -- The concept of affirmative education -- The pedagogy of the oppressed / Paulo Freire -- The education of feeling / M.V.C. Jeffreys -- The freedom to learn / Carl R. Rogers -- The will to learn / Jerome Bruner -- Dewey reconsidered / George Dennison -- The practice of affirmative education -- How children take responsibility for their learning / Marie Muir -- Wishes, lies, and dreams : teaching children to write poetry / Kenneth Koch -- Relevance / William Glasser -- Survival U / John Fisher -- Education : the crisis of an environment / Berry N. Schwartz -- Epilogue : Deschooling : a conversation with Ivan Illich -- Beyond literacy / Robert Disch.

Performer

ISBN 0 13 018390 3 Pbk: £1.50.

Subject

Education -- United States.

Education -- Philosophy.

Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Education.

Education -- Philosophy.

United States.

Onderwijs.

Opvoeding.

Socialisatie (sociale wetenschappen)

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Genre/Form

History.

Added Author

Schwartz, Barry N.,

Other Form:

Online version: Schwartz, Barry N. Affirmative education. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall 1972 (OCoLC)707942091

ISBN

0130183822

9780130183828

0130183903 (paperback)

9780130183903 (paperback)