DREAMING OF DISSENT: ROCHDALE COLLEGE AND THE FAILED DREAM OF COMMUNAL EDUCATION

The paper looks at experimental alternative education systems to explore different approaches to pedagogical theories of post-secondary education. The paper focuses on the story of Rochdale College, an experimental free-form college and communal housing project associated with the University of Tor...

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Main Author: Sean Steele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nipissing University 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning
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Online Access:https://jual.nipissingu.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2018/06/v12231.pdf
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spelling doaj-0e402bc064e647a59b0e62c46841d4b22020-11-24T20:56:03ZengNipissing UniversityJournal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning1916-81282018-06-011223118DREAMING OF DISSENT: ROCHDALE COLLEGE AND THE FAILED DREAM OF COMMUNAL EDUCATION Sean SteeleThe paper looks at experimental alternative education systems to explore different approaches to pedagogical theories of post-secondary education. The paper focuses on the story of Rochdale College, an experimental free-form college and communal housing project associated with the University of Toronto between 1968 and 1975. The aims, theories and methods of Rochdale College are contextualized by an examination of two theorists on alternative education: John Dewey and Paul Goodman. The theories of Dewey and Goodman are explored through a brief examination of two experimental colleges that preceded Rochdale: The Experimental College (at Tufts University from 1927-32) and Black Mountain College in North Carolina (active from 1933- 57). Ideas regarding alternative forms of education were integrated into socio-political ideas from the 1960s counterculture movement in America and Canada, and a major test site for a form of counterculture education was the controversial experiment called Rochdale College. The paper explores ideas of what an alternative post-secondary education system has looked like in the past, in order to pose questions about the ways it could take shape in the future.https://jual.nipissingu.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2018/06/v12231.pdfRochdale CollegeJohn Dewey; Paul Goodman; Black Mountain College; Experimental College; counterculture; alternative education; Toronto; anarchic education; freeform education; critical pedagogyJohn DeweyPaul GoodmanBlack Mountain CollegeExperimental Collegecounterculturealternative educationTorontoanarchic educationfree-form educationcritical pedagogy
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DREAMING OF DISSENT: ROCHDALE COLLEGE AND THE FAILED DREAM OF COMMUNAL EDUCATION
Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning
Rochdale College
John Dewey; Paul Goodman; Black Mountain College; Experimental College; counterculture; alternative education; Toronto; anarchic education; freeform education; critical pedagogy
John Dewey
Paul Goodman
Black Mountain College
Experimental College
counterculture
alternative education
Toronto
anarchic education
free-form education
critical pedagogy
author_facet Sean Steele
author_sort Sean Steele
title DREAMING OF DISSENT: ROCHDALE COLLEGE AND THE FAILED DREAM OF COMMUNAL EDUCATION
title_short DREAMING OF DISSENT: ROCHDALE COLLEGE AND THE FAILED DREAM OF COMMUNAL EDUCATION
title_full DREAMING OF DISSENT: ROCHDALE COLLEGE AND THE FAILED DREAM OF COMMUNAL EDUCATION
title_fullStr DREAMING OF DISSENT: ROCHDALE COLLEGE AND THE FAILED DREAM OF COMMUNAL EDUCATION
title_full_unstemmed DREAMING OF DISSENT: ROCHDALE COLLEGE AND THE FAILED DREAM OF COMMUNAL EDUCATION
title_sort dreaming of dissent: rochdale college and the failed dream of communal education
publisher Nipissing University
series Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning
issn 1916-8128
publishDate 2018-06-01
description The paper looks at experimental alternative education systems to explore different approaches to pedagogical theories of post-secondary education. The paper focuses on the story of Rochdale College, an experimental free-form college and communal housing project associated with the University of Toronto between 1968 and 1975. The aims, theories and methods of Rochdale College are contextualized by an examination of two theorists on alternative education: John Dewey and Paul Goodman. The theories of Dewey and Goodman are explored through a brief examination of two experimental colleges that preceded Rochdale: The Experimental College (at Tufts University from 1927-32) and Black Mountain College in North Carolina (active from 1933- 57). Ideas regarding alternative forms of education were integrated into socio-political ideas from the 1960s counterculture movement in America and Canada, and a major test site for a form of counterculture education was the controversial experiment called Rochdale College. The paper explores ideas of what an alternative post-secondary education system has looked like in the past, in order to pose questions about the ways it could take shape in the future.
topic Rochdale College
John Dewey; Paul Goodman; Black Mountain College; Experimental College; counterculture; alternative education; Toronto; anarchic education; freeform education; critical pedagogy
John Dewey
Paul Goodman
Black Mountain College
Experimental College
counterculture
alternative education
Toronto
anarchic education
free-form education
critical pedagogy
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