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classrooms, the eternal applicability of Dewey’s writings, and the wasteland of
educational philosophy since Dewey.
All of them are true, of course, but one yearns for a contemporary and QSY-
loyical justification of the open classroom approach. Why so little about Piagetian
applications in the Reader? What about the research on the potency of peer-group
relations and the conditions of healthy emotional development? What of thp
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