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Miller, Ronald J. "The Free School Movement, 1967-1972: A Study of Countercultural Ideology," American and New England Studies,, Boston University, May 2000.
This study describes the cultural and intellectual context of the free school movement, an unprecedented episode in the history of American education during which several thousand dissident educators, students and parents rejected the established system for public education and founded hundreds of alternative schools. The author interprets the historical meaning of the texts (including books, newsletters, school promotional literature) associated with the movement in order to explicated the core ideology shared by most of those involved. The study reviews historical scholarship on the protest movements of the 1960s to establish the cultural context that gave rise to the free schools, and draws from the literature in educational philosophy, primarily the work of John Dewey and his followers, to define and critique free school ideology. This study concludes that the promoters and followers of free school ideology, like others in the New Left and counterculture, were primarily opposed to the spread of technocracy in modern American culture and sought to revitalize a traditional American ideal of participatory democracy.
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