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Author Tanner, Daniel.

Title Crusade for democracy : progressive education at the crossroads / Daniel Tanner
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [1991]
©1991

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Description xviii, 133 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series SUNY series, The philosophy of education
SUNY series in philosophy of education.
Contents On the brink of disaster -- The formative meetings -- Origins and connections -- The surviving founders -- Recollections and retrospections -- The letters -- This ordeal of democracy -- The John Dewey Society and The Social Frontier -- The John Dewey Society and the Progressive Education Association -- The problem of purpose in the postwar period -- New directions -- Seeking to save Progressive Education -- The yearbooks -- The last of the yearbooks and the beginning of the lecture series
Analysis John Dewey Society History
Progressive education United States
Notes "A publication of the John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture in commemoration of its fifty-fifth anniversary."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-120) and indexes
Subject John Dewey Society -- History.
Progressive education -- United States.
Author John Dewey Society.
LC no. 90039181
ISBN 0791405443