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Chronicles the author’s
personal and professional journey within the American educational
system.
Free School Teaching is the personal and
professional journey of one teacher within the American educational
system. Faced with mounting frustrations in her own traditional, middle
school classroom and having little success in resolving them, Kristan
Accles Morrison decided to seek out answers, first by immersing herself in
the academic literature of critical education theory and then by turning
to the field. While the literature on progressive education gave her hope
that things could be better for students locked into America’s traditional
education system, she wanted to find a firsthand example of how these
ideas played out in practice. Morrison found a radical “free school” in
Albany, New York, that embodied the ideas found in the literature, and
over a period of three months she observed and documented differences
between alternative and traditional schools. In trying to reconcile the
gap between those systems, Morrison details what she learned about
teachers, students, curriculum, and the entire conception of why we
educate our children.
Table Of
Contents
Preface
1. Successful Student, Struggling
Teacher
2. A Language for Self-Understanding
3. A New
Vision
4. I Find a School
5. A Very Different
Setup
6. A Very Different Curriculum
7. Very Different
Students and Teachers
8. A Teacher Transformed
9.
Reform or Revolution—Is There Hope for Change in Traditional
Schools?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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