Founding Mothers and Others Women Educational Leaders During the Progressive Era

by Sadovnik, Alan R.; Semel, Susan F.

• ISBN13: 9780312295028
• ISBN10: 0312295022
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Interest in progressive education and feminist pedagogy has gained a significant following in current educational reform circles. Founding Mothers and Others examines the female founders of progressive schools and other female educational leaders in the early twentieth century and their schools or educational movements. All of the women led remarkable lives and their legacies are embedded in education today. The book examines the lessons to be learned from their work and their lives. The book also analyzes whether their leadership styles support contemporary feminist theories of leadership that argue women administrators tend to be more inclusive, democratic, and caring than male administrators. Through an examination of these women, this book looks critically at the ways in which the leaders' administrative styles and behaviors lend support to feminist claims.

Author Biography

Alan R. Sadovnik is Professor of Education and Sociology and Chair of the Department of Education and Academic Foundations at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the editor (with Susan Semel) of “Schools of Tomorrow,” Schools of Today.

Susan F. Semel is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the City College of New York. She is the author of The Dalton School, one of the seminal histories of the progressive school movement in the United States.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
Contributors	vii
Photographs
Introduction	1	(6)
Alan R. Sadovnik
Susan F. Semel
Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Palmer Institute	7	(12)
Katherine C. Reynolds
Marietta Johnson and the Organic School	19	(18)
Joseph W. Newman
Margaret Naumburg and the Walden School	37	(24)
Blythe Hinitz
Caroline Pratt and the City and Country School	61	(16)
Mary E. Hauser
Helen Parkhurst and the Dalton School	77	(16)
Susan F. Semel
Elsie Ripley Clapp and the Arthurdale Schools	93	(18)
Sam Stack
Carmelita Chase Hinton and the Putney School	111	(14)
Susan McIntosh Lloyd
Flora J. Cooke and the Francis W. Parker School	125	(22)
Gail L. Kroepel
Margaret Haley: Progressive Education and the Teacher	147	(16)
Kate Rousmaniere
Ella Flagg Young and the Chicago Schools	163	(14)
Jackie M. Blount
Laura Bragg and the Charleston Museum	177	(24)
Louise Anderson Allen
Charl Williams and the National Education Association	201	(16)
Wayne J. Urban
And Gladly Would She Learn: Margaret Willis and the Ohio State University School	217	(20)
Craig Kridel
From Susan Isaacs to Lillian Weber and Deborah Meier: A Progressive Legacy in England and the United States	237	(16)
Jody Hall
Conclusion	253	(10)
Alan R. Sadovnik
Susan F. Semel
Index	263