Democracy and Schooling in California
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Democracy and Schooling in California

The Legacy of Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds

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eBook - PDF

Democracy and Schooling in California

The Legacy of Helen Heffernan and Corinne Seeds

About this book

This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordinary women, Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Seeds, the Director of the University Elementary school at UCLA between 1925 and 1957.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Working Girls of the Golden West
  10. 2 The Child and the Curriculum
  11. 3 Dare the School Build a New Social Order?
  12. 4 Was Progressive Education Progressive?
  13. 5 Love and War
  14. 6 Prejudice
  15. 7 The Battle of Westwood Hills
  16. 8 Exporting Democracy/Defending Democracy
  17. 9 “Progressive” Education Is Subverting America
  18. 10 How to Teach the California Child
  19. Epilogue: The Long Retreat from Democratic Education
  20. List of Abbreviations
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index