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ERIC Number: EJ517249
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0955-2308
Summerhill Dismembered: Using Controversy to Motivate Adult Learners.
Murray, Louis; Lawrence, Brenda
Adults Learning (England), v7 n4 p96-99 Dec 1995
Workshops for teachers engaged in practitioner-based inquiry centered on the controversial issues raised by a television documentary on the Summerhill School. Learners normally engaged in distance education were motivated by the processes of dissent, argument, and disputation. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Debate, Foreign Countries, Programming (Broadcast), Student Motivation, Teacher Researchers, Workshops
Publication Type: Reports - General; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Summerhill School; United Kingdom