Mabel R. Goodlander

Mabel Ray Goodlander was born in Rockford, Illinois. Goodlander studied at Bradford Academy, Massachusetts, and at Rockford College. She did graduate work under John Dewey at the University of Chicago, and obtained her B.S. from the Teachers College at Columbia University. == Teaching and Ethical Culture ==

Goodlander was a student of Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture movement. In 1903, she became associated with the Ethical Culture schools, and from 1918 to 1924 oversaw an "Experimental Class". The object of this was described in a preface to Goodlander's book Education Through Experience as beingto try to work out in class room practice the more recent theories of elementary education under normal conditions, as to number of pupils, class room space, and teaching force. == Death ==

Goodlander died in Rockford, Illinois, aged 74. An obituary in the New York Times remembered her as a "leader in progressive education" in the city of New York. == Select bibliography ==

• "Development in the School Grades" in Festivals and Plays in School and Elsewhere by Percival Chubb and his associates in the Ethical Culture School, New York (1912) • Fairy Plays for Children (1915) • Education Through Experience: A Four Year Experiment in the Ethical Culture School (1921) • The First Sixty Years: An Historical Sketch of the Ethical Culture School, 1878–79 to 1938–39 (1939) == References ==