This definitive biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and Wisconsin's "Experimental College" in the early twentieth century and his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era. The central question Meiklejohn asked throughout his life's work remains essential today: How can education teach citizens to be free?
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin PressYear
2009Print ISBN
9780299171445
9780299171407
eBook ISBN
9780299171438
Topic
EducationSubtopic
Education BiographiesTable of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface: Meiklejohn, Socrates, and the Paradox of Democratic Education
- Acknowledgments
- PROVIDENCE, 1872–1911
- AMHERST, 1912–1924
- MADISON, 1925–1932
- BERKELEY, 1933–1947
- BERKELEY, 1948–1964
- Afterword: Education and the Democratic Ideal—The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn
- Notes
- Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
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