Alternative education. Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, includes a number of approaches to teaching and learning separate from that offered by mainstream or traditional education. Educational alternatives are rooted in a number of philosophies differing from those of mainstream education.
Although some alternatives have political, scholarly or philosophical orientations, others were begun by informal associations of teachers and students dissatisfied with some aspects of mainstream education. Educational alternatives (which include charter, alternative and independent schools and home-based learning) vary, but usually emphasize small class sizes, close relationships between students and teachers and a sense of community. Terminology[edit] Alternative education refers to education which does not conform to a conventional standard. Origins[edit] Alternative education presupposes a tradition to which the "alternative" is opposed. In the United States[edit] Full text of "The Dewey School The Laboratory School Of The University Of Chicago 1896-1903"
Harvard Graduate School of Education | To prepare leaders in education. Friends School: Upper School » Community Service. Community Service at Sidwell Friends School opens the hearts and minds of our students to the reality of other members of their community. This program often allows our students to become acquainted with people dealing with a variety of challenges and obstacles in their daily lives—people that most of them do not usually associate with on a regular basis. The relationships that our students form with these people allow them to understand the challenges and hopes of these people on a deeper, more personal level. As a result, it is our hope that they will develop empathy and compassion for these individuals, which will inform the personal and professional decisions that they make throughout their lives.
Our program is designed to meet a wide range of pressing needs in our community. Through a strong reflection component, the program also teaches a real world understanding of issues of social justice, and challenges stereotypes and prejudices existing within our students. Black Mountain College. Black Mountain College, a school founded in 1933 in Black Mountain, North Carolina (near Asheville, North Carolina), was a new kind of college in the United States in which the study of art was seen to be central to a liberal arts education, and in which John Dewey's principles of education played a major role.
Many of the school's students and faculty were influential in the arts or other fields, or went on to become influential. Although notable even during its short life, the school closed in 1957 after only 24 years.[2] History[edit] From 1933 to 1941, Black Mountain College was located at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly. Its Lake Eden campus, used from 1941 to 1957, is now part of Camp Rockmont, a summer camp for boys. Operating in a relatively isolated rural location with little budget, Black Mountain College inculcated an informal and collaborative spirit and over its lifetime attracted a venerable roster of instructors.
The college suspended classes by court order in 1957. Guerilla Educators. Innovative Trends in High School. In East Jerusalem, A School Where Kids Can Be Kids. New Visions for Public Schools. Harlem Children's Zone. School. Escuela Moderna. The front page of the bulletin of the group published on December 31, 1905 in Barcelona. La Escuela Moderna (Spanish for "The Modern School") was a progressive school that existed briefly at the start of the 20th century in Catalonia (Spain). Founded in 1901[1] in Barcelona by free-thinker Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, the school's stated goal was to "educate the working class in a rational, secular and non-coercive setting". In practice, high tuition fees restricted attendance at the school to wealthier middle class students.
It was privately hoped that when the time was ripe for revolutionary action, these students would be motivated to lead the working classes. It closed in 1906. Shortly after, Ferrer was executed for sedition.[1] Today, the only remaining archives from the school are held in the special collections department of the University of California, San Diego.[2] References[edit] See also[edit] Popular education. The Harlem Project - Page 4. Back in 1990, Geoffrey Canada was just your average do-gooder. That year, he became the president of a nonprofit charitable organization based in Harlem called the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, and he set out trying to improve the world, one poor child at a time. It was a bad moment to be poor in New York City. Harlem, especially, was suffering under the simultaneous plagues of crack cocaine, cheap guns and rampant homelessness, and Canada's main goal at Rheedlen, in those years, was to keep the children in his programs alive.
The organization had an annual budget of $3 million, which it spent on a predictable array of services in Upper Manhattan: after-school programs, truancy prevention, anti-violence training for teenagers. The programs seemed to do a lot of good for the children who were enrolled in them, at least in part because of Canada's own level of devotion. Canada knew there were success stories out there. Wilderness therapy program for troubled teens and at-risk youth, residential treatment program alternative to boot camp and brat camp - ANASAZI Foundation. Outward Bound International.
Public. Alternative. Gifted programs. Charter. Private. Wildflowers Nature School - Sebastopol Preschool, Homeschool & Nature-based Learning Programs in Sonoma County CA. Green School. Green School, Bali: An international school rooted in holistic education & environmental stewardship | Exchange | Ode Magazine. United World Colleges. United World Colleges (or UWC) is an education movement comprising 14 international schools and colleges, national committees in more than 140 countries, and a series of short educational programmes. Students are selected from around the globe based on their merit and potential. UWC schools, colleges and national committees offer scholarship and bursary schemes as well as accepting a limited number of fee-paying students. The UWC international organisation is a British-based foundation and has 14 schools and colleges in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Armenia, Costa Rica, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Netherlands; national committees in more than 140 countries; a portfolio of short programmes running in numerous countries; a network of more than 50,000 alumni from more than 181 countries,[1] and an International Office in London.
History[edit] Hahn envisaged a college educating boys and girls of age 16 to 20. Summerhill At 70 [Part 1]