Alternative American schools : ideals in action / Claire V. Korn.

By:

Korn, Claire V, 1933-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1991.Description: 1 online resource (v, 170 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585057451
9780585057453
9780791404713
0791404714

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alternative American schools.DDC classification:

371/.04 20

LOC classification:

LB1029.F7 K58 1991eb

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Contents:

Explanations and an introduction -- One teacher's day -- A history and open education -- Child-directed and community-oriented schools -- What and who : curriculum and staffing -- More common ground -- Fears of parents : will my child learn? -- More worries -- Survival needs.

Summary: Annotation Eleven case studies explore how alternative farming systems have been adopted--and with what economic results--on farms of various sizes producing different crops across the country. (unseen), $14.95. Korn, who founded and directed an alternative middle school and has worked and written in the field for many years, originally wrote this explanation of the workings of American alternative schools for Japanese parents and educators worried about the monolithic authority of their nation's education system (it was published in Japanese in 1984 as Free schools: reality and dream). This new edition includes additional prefatory material and an afterword that begins with the observation that American education has become more conservative, more Japanese, in the ensuing years. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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"A Japanese language version, titled Furee sukuru: sono-genjtan-to-yume (Free schools: reality and dream), was published in Tokyo in 1984"--Page 3.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163) and index.

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Annotation Eleven case studies explore how alternative farming systems have been adopted--and with what economic results--on farms of various sizes producing different crops across the country. (unseen), $14.95. Korn, who founded and directed an alternative middle school and has worked and written in the field for many years, originally wrote this explanation of the workings of American alternative schools for Japanese parents and educators worried about the monolithic authority of their nation's education system (it was published in Japanese in 1984 as Free schools: reality and dream). This new edition includes additional prefatory material and an afterword that begins with the observation that American education has become more conservative, more Japanese, in the ensuing years. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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