From a gadfly to a hornet : academic freedom, humanizing education, and the intellectual life of Joseph Kinmont Hart

• Main Authors: Boyles, Deron (Author), Potts, Kenneth J. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP, Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2016.
• Series: Readings in American educational thought.
• Subjects: Hart, Joseph K. > (Joseph Kinmont), > 1876-1949.; Academic freedom.; Education > Philosophy.; Educators > United States > Biography.; elektronické knihy; Biographies.; Biography & Autobiography > Educators.; Biography: philosophy and social sciences.; Education.; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806609611
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-68123-480-9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)

We examine Hart's peripatetic career as teacher, editor, journalist, lecturer, and public philosopher. It is biographical as well as an intellectual history of a fascinating character and prolific author.Our goal is to resurrect Hart's intellectual life in order to more deeply understand t...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Craig Kridel
• Preface
• Acknowledgments. Images
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The early years: Midwest beginnings
• Chapter 2. The young professor and the university of washington, 1910-1915
• Chapter 3. The first world war, academic freedom, and the reed college years, 1916-1919
• Chapter 4. The break from the academe: The survey years and danish folk schools, 1919-1925
• Chapter 5. The wisconsin years, 1927-1930, and the vanderbilt years, 1930-1934
• Chapter 6. The final years, 1935-1949: Teachers college, columbia and the john dewey society
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• About the authors
• Index.