Kridel Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College

A Life of Social and Educational Activism
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9065-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Excelsior Editions

The engaging memoir of a college president and public intellectual who became one of America's leading mid-twentieth-century social and educational activists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kridel, Craig

Weitere Mitwirkende

Botstein, Leon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Harold Taylor in Retrospect
by 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 McCarthy 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 Autor(innen)

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 include Stories of the Eight-Year Study: Reexamining Secondary Education in America (with Robert V. Bullough Jr.), also published by SUNY Press.