Progressive Reading Education in America: Teaching Toward Social Justice

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table Of Contents -- Preface: The Struggle -- 1. Introduction: Then And Now -- Traditional Reading Lessons -- The Struggle For The Reading Curriculum -- Humanists -- A Child-centered Approach -- Scientific Management -- Social Reconstruction -- Power Within This Struggle -- History -- Progressive -- Justice -- Democracy -- 2. Intellectual Roots -- John Amos Comenius -- Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Johan Pestalozzi -- Friedrich Froebel -- Frederick Douglass -- Well-established Principles Of Teaching -- 3. The Quincy Method In Context -- Portraits Of The Public School System -- 4. John Dewey And The Schools Of Tomorrow -- Dewey's Vision For Education -- The Laboratory School -- Schools Of Tomorrow -- 5. Self And Society -- Child-centered Pedagogy -- Play -- Emotions -- Self-direction -- Analyses Of Child-centered Schools -- Social Reconstructionist Pedagogy -- Curriculum -- Literacy -- Equality -- Collaboration -- Agency -- Progressive Reading Instruction -- 6. All In -- Renewed Critiques Of Traditional Schooling -- Reading Instruction In Alternative Settings -- The Process Of Reading/learning To Read -- The Process Of Writing And Learning To Write -- The Whole Language Umbrella -- Critical Literacy -- Rethinking Schools -- 7. Variations On A Theme -- Cannot Be Traditionally Taught -- Communities In Which They Live -- Accessible To More Children -- Needs To Be Lived ... And Move To (too!) -- Participate In The World With New Mindsets, Identities, And Practices -- Doing School Differently -- 8. Conclusion: To Continue -- What We're Up Against -- In Reading Education -- The Struggle To Continue -- References -- Index