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ERIC Number: EJ531661
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-4681
Community and Democracy in American Schools: Arthurdale and the Fate of Progressive Education.
Perlstein, Daniel
Teachers College Record, v97 n4 p625-50 Sum 1996
Schools in Arthurdale (West Virginia), a New Deal resettlement community for displaced coal miners, made landmark efforts to bring Deweyan ideals of progressive education to bear on community life. The article examines Arthurdale's pedagogy and history in order to illuminate ambiguities of educators' efforts to promote community, emphasizing unaddressed problems of racial and social inequalities. (SM)
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Schools, Democracy, Democratic Values, Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Politics of Education, Poverty, Progressive Education, Racial Discrimination, Social Status, Socioeconomic Status
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Arthurdale Community School WV; Clapp (Elsie Ripley); Community Centered Learning; Homesteading; New Deal