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ERIC Number: EJ523827
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-956X
Nineteenth-Century Agrarian Populism and Twentieth-Century Communitarianism: Points of Contact and Contrast.
Johnson, Michael N.
Peabody Journal of Education, v70 n4 p86-104 Sum 1995
Connects contemporary communitarian ideas to the agenda of the 19th-century populist movement. The populist educational agenda (the agrarian revolt and Farmers' Alliance) provides historical examples of the implementation of communitarian educational theory. The populist movement as an example of communitarianism highlights an instance of a democratic form of communitarianism. (SM)
Descriptors: Community, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Farmers, Individualism, Liberalism, Politics of Education, Public Education, United States History
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Agrarianism; Farmers Alliance; Populism
Note: Theme issue title: "Education and the Liberal-Communitarian Debate."