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Caging Wild Birds: Making "Real Boys" into "Real Men" at the Interlaken School, 1907-1918.
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Hamer, Lynne – Educational Studies: A Journal in the Foundations of Education, 1998
Interlaken School (Indiana) was an elite boys' preparatory boarding school that combined Hall's definitive theory of adolescence and Spencer's theory of social evolution into both a philosophy and a pedagogy. Interlaken was portrayed as an isolated mythologized community that combined manual with mental development and believed that adolescent…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Boarding Schools, Educational History, Educational Philosophy