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British Primary Schools Today: An Introduction

Featherstone, Joseph

Macmillan & Co. For The Mind Association

As an educator and journalist who has been closely observing schools for more than three decades, Joseph Featherstone is a powerful voice in the struggle for better schooling in our nation. This much-needed and beautifully written collection testifies to the importance of respecting children's minds, educating all children, the craft of teaching, and democratic values.

Dear Josie: Witnessing the Hopes and Failures of Democratic Education

Education & Teaching

Featherstone, Liza

Featherstone, Caitlin

Schools & Teaching

Teachers College Pr

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. 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.

Schools Where Children Learn

Politics & Social Sciences

Brantome, A.

Social Sciences

Liveright Publishing

Liveright

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. 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.

Schools where children learn

The poems of Brace's Cove consider the seemingly random connections between the cosmos and our daily lives. As Featherstone see it, "we are as close to heaven / as it gets," and even "the Milky Way pouring down" is reflected in smaller ways so that we may witness its routine: "Waterlilies, filling with rain, / tipping, filling again." The greater foretells its microcosms, much as waves report momentum for a larger body when they break against a cove then ebb again to open water. The poet recognizes the wearing-down such a process brings, but sees this erosion as necessity rather than diminishment, a recognition that even the sun seems to uphold: "Such radiance – / rinsing the broken world clean." Featherstone's poems work a similar magic, casting their considerable light on the small moment or particular to reveal the vastness that informs it.

Brace's Cove (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

New Issues Poetry and Prose

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