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ERIC Number: EJ709893
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Feb-1
Pages: 0
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
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A Learner's Bill of Rights
Rathbone, Charles H.
Phi Delta Kappan, v86 n6 p471 Feb 2005
Celebrating its 35th year, the Fayerweather Street School of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the few extant schools associated with the "open education" movement of the late Sixties. Not only has the school flourished, but it has managed to stick to its original progressive principles. Fayerweather recently hosted a panel discussion on progressive education, which prompted the author to write this article. Listening to the panelists discuss progressive education--its politics, its commitment to social responsibility, its emphasis on the individual learner as the maker of meaning--he found himself formulating a bill of rights, intellectual rights, that he imagines his progressive colleagues, past and present, might endorse. In this article the author identifies the rights of the learner that all educators should embrace and protect. These rights of the learner, like their constitutional analogs, are forever balanced in the real world against the greater good of the group. The author wants teachers to flinch at each violation of a learner's rights.
Phi Delta Kappa International, Inc., 408 N. Union St., P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402-0789. Web site: http://www.pdkintl.org.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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