Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education
Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College is the posthumous memoir of Harold Taylor (1914–1993) told through thoughtful and entertaining accounts of his many interactions with leading cultural and political figures of his time. Taylor distinguished himself as a spokesperson for progressive education and educational experimentation during the 1950s and would emerge in the 1960s as one of the country’s leading public intellectuals and campus speakers, addressing issues related to student activism, peace education, and international studies. Written with insight and wit and carefully edited and reconstructed,
Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College will inspire college students, professors, and administrators to reconsider the most fundamental purposes of higher education and social and educational change.
Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College is the posthumous memoir of Harold Taylor (1914–1993) told through thoughtful and entertaining accounts of his many interactions with leading cultural and political figures of his time. Taylor distinguished himself as a spokesperson for progressive education and educational experimentation during the 1950s and would emerge in the 1960s as one of the country’s leading public intellectuals and campus speakers, addressing issues related to student activism, peace education, and international studies. Written with insight and wit and carefully edited and reconstructed,
Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College will inspire college students, professors, and administrators to reconsider the most fundamental purposes of higher education and social and educational change.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword: Harold Taylor in Retrospectby Leon Botstein
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. The Day Duke Died
2. A Student’s Journey
3. Coming Down from Cambridge
4. The Wisconsin Years: A Serious Concern for the Relation of Thought to Action
5. Sarah Lawrence Remembrances: A Community in the Making
6. Assault on a Small College
7. On Being Written About: Mary Mc Carthy and Randall Jarrell
8. Dewey, Meiklejohn, and the 1950s
9. Thoughts on Leaving Sarah Lawrence and Life Thereafter
10. Adlai Stevenson and the 1960 Presidential Campaign: Putting the Public Interest above His Own
11. The Student Revolt Revisited: Students in a Stormy Time
12. Unbegun Chapters: Hubert Humphrey, Plagiarism, and Albert Barnes
Epilogue: Luck, Fate, Commitment, and Change
Postscript: The Play of Ideas
Appendix: Sample Schedule for Harold Taylor, May and June 1965
Notes
Index
Über den Autor
Craig Kridel is E. S. Gambrell Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies and Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Education at the University of South Carolina. His many books includeStories of the Eight-Year Study: Reexamining Secondary Education in America (with Robert V. Bullough Jr.), also published by SUNY Press.
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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 302 ● ISBN 9781438490656 ● Dateigröße 5.4 MB ● Herausgeber Craig Kridel ● Verlag State University of New York Press ● Erscheinungsjahr 2022 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 8381039 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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