"Only the Free Soul Blossoms!" Ideology and Practice in Anarchist Education: A Global History, 1911–1929

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Abstract

This paper will argue that the relationship between ideology and educational practice is reciprocal, where each affects the other and each is subject to constant change. To show this, this paper will use a global history perspective to examine three educational experiments that took place during the early twentieth century: the Modern School in New York (1911-1915), the Overseas Chinese Workers’ School (1916-1918), and the Mount Gilboa Children’s Society in Palestine (1926-1929). Conceptualizing each experiment as a historical anchor that is both part of global and local contexts, this paper will show that radical educators participated in radical educational experimentation that, once attempted, changed educators’ ideology and in turn informed later educational practices.

Author

• Yotam Ronen
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