Growing into Goodness: Essays on Quaker Education (SIGNED)

Lacey, Paul A.

ISBN 10: 087574933X / ISBN 13: 9780875749334

Published by Pendle Hill Publications, Wallingford, Pa., 1998

About this Item

291 pages. Softcover. Very light age wear to cover corners, edges. Light foxing to top of text block, small dark stains to side of text block. Clean and tight copy inside. Signed/inscribed in title page by author, first name only. Record # 2231605.

Seller Inventory # 2231605

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Growing into Goodness: Essays on Quaker Education (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Pendle Hill Publications, Wallingford, Pa.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087574933X
• ISBN 13: 9780875749334
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: None
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In these essays, the author tries to address practical issues of teaching and learning from historical perspectives, to see what insights Quakerism in particular has offered, and to discover what influences have been most powerful on Quakers concerned with education. The first four essays address issues of current practice in Quaker education: the spiritual purposes of our schools, how schools interpret the phrase "that of God in everyone," the place of the meeting for worship, the business method and the testimonies in the educational project. The next three essays examine some perennial issues: finding suitable teachers, addressing the economics of Quaker education, and discovering what a "guarded education" ought to be. The final three essays survey affinities with and influences from several philosophies of education, among them the work of Comenius, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Montessori and Dewey, and discuss the connections of ethics and ethos in Quaker education. [From the Introduction]