After the Harkness Gift

In 1930, philanthropist Edward S. Harkness bestowed a gift of $5.8 million on Phillips Exeter Academy, expecting to inspire "something revolutionary" in secondary education. The gift enabled the Exeter, New Hampshire, academy to redesign pedagogy and classrooms around distinctive oval "Harkness tables" that could accommodate twelve students plus a teacher and to remake its campus into a residential community. The gift transformed education at the school, but its impact spread well beyond the classroom. Since 1930, principles of free and open inquiry and discussion have come to animate Exeter's efforts to deal with major challenges and changes, including working with an increasingly diverse community, introducing coeducation, and governing and financing a large, complex institution. "After the Harkness Gift" demonstrates how one leading independent school adopted a distinctive approach to teaching and learning and then successfully adapted it in the service of continuing institutional change.This book describes the authoritative modern history of Phillips Exeter Academy and its much-admired revolutionary educational style.

ISBN 0976978717   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780976978718 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher PEA Press   Weight (grammes) 708 Imprint PEA Press   Published in Exeter Format Hardback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 15 Jul 2008   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress 2007048505   Spine width (mm) 29 DEWEY 373.7426   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Prologue		Something revolutionary
1		Before the Harkness gift		8
2		Governing a faculty-run school		34
3		Enlarging the minds		76
4		Forming the morals		111
5		The composition of the community		149
6		Coeducation : the quiet revolution		182
7		Strengthening the foundation		207
8		Life after Exeter		231
		Epilogue		254
		Notes		261
		Index		295

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