A Riverboat Gambler's Utopian Experiment

Autor/in	Bute, Monte
Titel	A Riverboat Gambler's Utopian Experiment
Quelle	In: Educational Foundations, 30 (2017) 1-4, S.7-32 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1047-8248
Schlagwörter	State Colleges; Experimental Colleges; Educational Innovation; Experimental Curriculum; Experimental Teaching; Nontraditional Education; Educational History; Ethnography; Communities of Practice; Feminism; Educational Practices; Individual Needs; Individual Instruction; Student Needs; Competency Based Education; Student Centered Learning; Outcomes of Education; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Experimentalunterricht; Experimentelle Pädagogik; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ethnografie; Community; Feminismus; Bildungspraxis; Individuelles Lernen; Education; Competence; Competency; Competency-based education; Unterricht; Kompetenzorientierte Methode; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	In a seven-year study of new experimental colleges, Grant and Riesman (1978) report that within those schools "The utopian impulses are strong, representing a search for a more perfect union." One of the most radical of those experiments was Minnesota Metropolitan State College (MMSC). In addition to having no campus, the school had no classes, no grades, no academic terms, and no lower division courses. This article is an historical ethnography of the early years of that utopian experiment and its radical educational innovations. It focuses on President David E. Sweet (the "Riverboat Gambler" in the title of this article) and his band of "committed amateurs and well-trained professionals," who forged a charismatic community. A devout Christian Scientist, Sweet rejected the idea that creating heaven on earth was just a figure of speech. As a matter of faith, he believed that the Kingdom of Heaven has the spiritual potential of manifesting itself in the present--in particular, at Metropolitan State. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01