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Highlander Folk School: Getting Information, Going Back and Teaching It

Frank Adams
Harvard Educational Review December 1972, 42 (4) 497-520; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.42.4.2657u2225v55311w
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If our judgments about educational change were based only on conventional histories,our vision of alternative futures would be constrained. We would probably come to the conclusion that a small number of school professionals and prominent social reformers have alone been responsible for initiating and maintaining worthwhile reforms.

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