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Public School Camping
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Public School Camping
California's Pilot Project in Outdoor Education
By
James Mitchell Clarke
Prepared for the San Diego City-County Camp Commission under the direction of the School-Camp Steering Committee.
The school camping movement, one of the most significant of recent developments in American education, is arousing more and more interest because it has demonstrated the real value as an extension of education into rich and hihgly stimulating environments. In response to this growing interest, a number of American communities have organized camping programs to serve the interest of public education. Among these programs, one carried out in recent years by the City and County of San Diego, California, is recognized as outstanding.
A mountain camp
Camp Cuyamaca was established in 1946 among mountains clothed with oak and pine fifty miles inland from San Diego. Under a rotating plan of attendance, sixth-grade children of the San Diego City and County public schools spend one week of their school year at the camp. Here they learn the practical essentials of democracy by making and enforcing their own rules for community living. Their week of shared experiences in natural surroundings helps them develop new and wholesome attitudes toward themselves and physical environments. Above all, they have a rousing good time as they take part in a rich program of activities which supplement and vitalize the lessons of the classroom.
A pioneer experience
In Public School Camping, James Mitchell Clarke describes the development of Camp Cuyamaca from its beginning to the present time and uses this pioneer experience as the basis for a discussion of the theory and practice of school camping. This discussion includes practical details concerning development and administration of a public school camping program, as well as a valuable analysis of the educational and psychological principles underlying school camping.
For every school
Public school officials all over the country are now thinking about the advantages children may gain from supervised camping. All may profit from the discussion of methods and objectives in this timely book. Indoor and outdoor activities of the campers, the maintenance of physical and emotional health, exploitation of the camp's natural environment, problems of administration and of co-ordination between the schools and the community -- these are only a few of the topics which Mr. Clarke's book covers. The photographs of Camp Cuyamaca and its enthusiastic population of sixth-graders confirm the message of the text -- that public school camping can be greatly worth while.
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Title
Clarke
Author
Public School Camping
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN
0804705658, 9780804705653
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Night Falls on the Eternal Forest
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Mother tree says goodnight to the baby trees of the eternal forest.
Schooling and Work in the Democratic State
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A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue thegoals of equality and social mobility irrespective of the inequalities of capitalist society; the Marxian perspective views schools as serving the role of producing wage-labor for capitalistic exploitation.
The authors suggest that the shortcomings of both views are rooted in the fact that they do not recognize the true functions of the democratic, capitalist state. This state is seen as an arena for struggle between forces pushing for egalitarian, democratic, reforms and those seeking to use the resources of the state for private capital accumulation. Depending on which side has primacy at the moment, schools will reflect one set of goals over the other. However, victory is never complete, and the tide of battle has shifted back and forth historically.
The authors develop this theory through interpreting the dynamic relation between U.S. schools and the workplace. Based on this approach, they predict changes in both schooling and work as well as the forms that future conflicts between the contending forces are likely to take.
Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics, and Henry M. Levin is Professor of Eduction and Affiliated Professor of Economics, at Stanford University.
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Schooling and work in the democratic state
By Martin Carnoy, Henry M. Levin
Published by Stanford University Press, 1985
ISBN 0804712425, 9780804712422
307 pages
Contents
Introduction 1
functionalist , capitalist , social relations
Historical Traditions and a New Approach 7
relations of production , functionalist , U.S. Supreme Court
Education and Theories of the State 26
social-conflict theory , relations of production , capital accumulation
Education and the Changing American Workplace 52
capital accumulation , labor market , Proposition 13
Social Conflict and the Structure of Education 76
vocational education , social mobility , herent
Reproduction and the Practices of Schooling 110
ability group , Huntington School , percentile ranking
Contradiction in Education 144
social equality , profes , school discipline
Reforms in the Workplace 177
trade unions , autonomous work groups , job enrichment
Predicting Educational Reforms 215
mastery learning , flexible modular scheduling , educational vouchers
The Potential and Limits of School Struggles 247
Reaganomics , Educational vouchers , Reagan Administration
References Cited 271
American Economic Review , Althusser , Chicago
Index 299
Levin , Schooling
