Open education and the American school,
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Agathon Press ; distributed by Schocken Books,
[1972], ©1972
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Table of Contents:
- Assumptions about learning knowledge : Sources of information ; Open education: assumptions about learning and knowledge : Motivation ; Conditions for learning ; Social learning ; Intellectual development ; Evaluation ; Assumptions about knowledge
- The teacher and the open classroom : The teacher as person ; The teacher as knower ; The teacher as facilitator of learning : The teacher respects children as individuals ; The teacher manages the environment ; The teacher provides materials ; The teacher consolidates children's experience through language ; The teacher provides direct instruction ; The teacher encourages children's activity ; The teacher encourages children's independence. The teacher as manager of children : The teacher as authority ; The teacher and the "problem child," ; The teacher as evaluator
- Romance and reality: a case study : Background ; The program ; The schools ; The staff ; Administrative organization ; Resistance to open education : Resistance from children ; Resistance from parents ; Resistance from administrators
- The principal and open education : The principal helps teachers develop their ideas about children, learning, and knowledge ; The principal helps teachers work with children : Responding to teachers' requests ; Classroom observations ; Demonstration lessons ; The learning center ; Class trips. The principal establishes a positive relationship with the community ; Educational change