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The Bank Street Program: Child Growth And Learning In Social Studies Experiences (1952), Charlotte B. Winsor
The Bank Street Program: Child Growth And Learning In Social Studies Experiences (1952), Charlotte B. Winsor
Bank Street Thinkers
"The teachers and psychologists who are the Bank Street group lay no claim to the discovery of any new axioms in educational practice. They have invented no method, no device, no gadget that opens magic doors to learning. What they have done is to establish principles based upon the needs and purposes of children, related to the world in which they live..." This article illustrates a program at City and Country School in which class jobs, such as running the school post office, supply store, and printing shop form the base for social studies experiences. Applying a philosophy similar to …
Social Studies And Geography (1934), Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Social Studies And Geography (1934), Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Bank Street Thinkers
Lucy Sprague Mitchell muses upon the meaning of each of the title words separately and then together providing insight into how children learn best -- by doing. Discusses Mitchell's concepts of human geography and how school trips promote students' understanding of their world.
No Ordinary Field Trip: A Conversation With John Lewis, Sam Brian
No Ordinary Field Trip: A Conversation With John Lewis, Sam Brian
Progressive Education in Context
Eighth grade students from Bank Street School for Children meet Congressman John Lewis in Washington D. C.
Progressive Education In Context, I-Iv, Bank Street School For Children
Progressive Education In Context, I-Iv, Bank Street School For Children
Progressive Education in Context
Contains current articles that highlight aspects of the educational vision, mission, and values of the Bank Street School for Children.
Challenging The Norms: Democracy, Empowering Education, And Negotiating The Curriculum, Joshua Sean Thomases
Challenging The Norms: Democracy, Empowering Education, And Negotiating The Curriculum, Joshua Sean Thomases
All Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations
Discusses the principles of a democratic classroom, and how implementing these principles can create a powerful environment where extensive and in-depth learning truly happens.
Extending The Environment: Before The Trip And After; The Trip; Eight Days, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Elizabeth Whitney Walther, Elsa Euland
Extending The Environment: Before The Trip And After; The Trip; Eight Days, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Elizabeth Whitney Walther, Elsa Euland
69 Bank Street
Volume 1, Number 8, May 1935
Detailed description of Bank Street's "Long Trip" to Morgantown, West Virginia and Washington, D. C. in 1935.
"The trip to West Virginia and Washington in which is described in this issue of 69 Bank Street, first by a student teacher and then by a staff member, was part of our year's work with the student teachers on "environment" - part of an attempt to get in first-hand contact with some of the major work patterns and their accompanying psychological patterns which characterize our current American culture" -- Lucy Sprague Mitchell