Schools Where Children Learn

By: Joseph Featherstone

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Paperback | 1 September 1971 | Edition Number 1

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194 Pages

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"He was the first critic of American educational practices to champion the British primary system as a model of reform.

This book contains all of Featherstone's ideas on sound educational procedures and the ""open-classroom concept"" and takes a profound look at our current educational crisis. First he examines the English primary schools, carefully analyzing their informal approach which, he finds, has enabled ordinary teachers working with many different kinds of children to achieve impressive results. He then describes the varieties of sound educational practice—schools that are organized learning environments for children—finding common threads of freedom, a new conception of the teacher's role, and an implicit understanding that a full childhood is the best preparation for life. Joseph Featherstone—along with John Holt, Robert Coles, and Charles Silberman—stands at the forefront of those calling for a humane, new education for our children."

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This is better as what it originally was - articles which appeared in the New Republic proceeding from the "open," here "informal," classroom with Montessori, Dewey, Piaget as older mentors and Holt and Kohl etc. as newer in the progressive-regressive cycle. Mr. Featherstone comments in general on "wasteful, meritocratic patterns," on externals blighting content, on the child's learning to think and his liberation but not in vacuo. In specific he surveys and annotates some British schools with their innovative techniques and then some American (primarily ghetto or foundation-supported), a few day care centers, computer learning and the documentary film, High School. In the introduction he states that "The lessons slum schools teach their students are never going to be as vivid as the lessons they learn from existence in the slums," a major problem George Dennison overlooked, and he does give a token acknowledgement to the larger social issues which crimp the handwriting on the blackboard. Even so, the book is at best a marginal addition. (Kirkus Reviews)

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