Women educators in the progressive era: the women behind Dewey's laboratory school

This book explores the experiences and writings of four teachers at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, both to investigate their lives as female professionals during the Progressive era, and to add to our understanding of this innovative institution and how these philosophies and innovations have carried out to this day. INDICE: - Introduction: The Laboratory School and Pragmatism - Female Professionalism and the Laboratory School Teachers - Decision-making at the Laboratory School - Teachers as Content Area Experts - Laboratory School Teachers and Social Change - Democratic Community - Implications for Today's Teachers andSchools

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61073-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 20/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés