Notes of a Progressive Educator from the Academy and the Classroom

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Notes

Notes

1 This refers to Arlo Guthrie’s famous line in his song “Alice’s Restaurant”: “that you can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant, exceptin’ Alice.”

2 This is based on my numerous observations at the Waldorf School in Garden City, Long Island (NY) and guest lectures given by Waldorf educators in my classes in philosophy of education at Adelphi University from 1988–1994.

3 For a more complete discussion of the leadership of women in progressive schools, see Semel and Sadovnik (1999) and Sadovnik and Semel (2002).

4 In the chapter that follows, Pinar credits James B. Macdonald, Dwayne Huebner, and Maxine Greene as laying the “theoretical groundwork for the intellectual events of the 1970s” (p. 492).While the contributions of these authors are certainly important, my reading is that Schwab’s contribution to curriculum development and theory has been immense.