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Owings, Loren C. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1990
Following brief background on the Oneida Community, a nineteenth-century communitarian sect, this bibliography lists a catalog, 2 microfilm collections, 15 newspapers and periodicals, 111 books and articles, and 11 doctoral dissertations on the sect. Many entries are annotated. (MES)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Collective Settlements, Group Experience, Religious Organizations
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Contemporary Education, 1987
This theme issue examines New Harmony, the site of two utopian experiments in the nineteenth century. This history of the Harmonists and their lasting impact on public education is discussed in a series of articles. (MT)
Descriptors: Collective Settlements, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Experience
Near, Henry – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
An historical approach to Israeli education in the kibbutz focuses on communal educational practices stemming from the ideological influences of the kibbutz youth movement. Work is an essential part of the kibbutz educational process and is integrated with the total life of the kibbutz. (JN)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Collective Settlements, Cooperatives, Foreign Countries
Cobb, William H. – 2000
Commonwealth College was the longest lived and most notorious of the resident labor colleges operating during the 1920s-30s. Founded in 1923 at NewLlano Cooperative Colony in Louisiana, the school was modeled on the self-maintenance characteristics of an abortive pre-war experiment in social education: Ruskin College. Disputes over priorities with…
Descriptors: Activism, Collective Settlements, Colleges, Educational Practices
Hewes, Dorothy W. – 1993
This review of the literature about fictional and actual utopian communities focuses on parents and children in American utopias. Introductory comments explore the history and defining characteristics of utopias. The next section highlights references to women, children, education, and parenting in several fictional utopias, including Plato's…
Descriptors: Collective Settlements, Early Childhood Education, Educational History, Educational Philosophy