Sixties Legacy : A History of the Public Alternative Schools Movement, 1967-2001

by Neumann, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780820463544
• ISBN10: 082046354X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Author Biography

Richard Neumann is Associate Professor of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. He received his Ph.D. in social and multicultural foundations of education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has taught in two public alternative high schools and has published articles on alternative education, student alienation, and school dropouts

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Chapter 1 Landscape of the Sixties	9	(38)
Chapter 2 Paradigm Construction and the Bridge of Ideas: Influences on the Early Alternative Schools Movement	47	(26)
Chapter 3 Emergence of a Movement	73	(32)
Chapter 4 The Alternative Schools Movement Goes Public	105	(24)
Chapter 5 Toward a System of Diversified, High-Quality Education: 1973-1979	129	(12)
Chapter 6 The Educational Imagination	141
Chapter 7 Assessment of the Public Alternative Schools Movement: The 1970's	119	(74)
Chapter 8 The 1980's and 1990's	193	(32)
Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusion	225	(14)
Notes	239	(24)
Bibliography	263	(14)
Index	277