Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index
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The American scholar vs. American schools: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Horace Mann -- Romantic wholism: education as reintegration -- Philosophy descending: James Marsh and Bronson Alcott -- Varieties of transcendentalist teaching: Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau -- The turbulent embrace of thinking: prose style and the languages of education -- Uniting the child and the curriculum: John Dewey -- Education by poetry: pedagogy and the arts in early modernism -- Opening classrooms and minds: the 1960s and 1970s -- Enacting the active mind: teaching English, teaching teaching
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This book presents an antidote to the self-destructive war between educational conservatives and progressives, arguing that each has only part of the solution in what should be a productive dialectic between experience and concepts--Outlines the rich tradition of educational thought we have already created in this country, suggesting ways to apply it to our current reform efforts--Provides a new paradigm for re-conceptualizing our educational past, urging us to move in the direction of our best and most characteristic literary and philosophical thinkers--Critiques the usual academic discourse on education and suggests alternatives through his lively and direct style