Jane Roland Martin is a philosopher of education whose contributions to education have warranted her inclusion in the 2011 volume Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education and the new Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers. Her books include Reclaiming a Conversation, The Schoolhome, Changing the Educational Landscape, Cultural Miseducation, Education Reconfigured, and Preserving Planet Earth, the cover of which features a photograph of her at MacDowell by photographer and Fellow Bill Jacobson. A former Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of the John Dewey Society’s 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award, at MacDowell she was at work on an analytic educational memoir written from the dual standpoint of the schoolchild she was when she graduated from the 8th grade of The Little Red Schoolhouse in Greenwich Village in 1943 and the philosopher she became when she received her Ph.D. in 1961 from Harvard/Radcliffe. The book’s title is School Was Our Life: Remembering Progressive Education.
Jane Roland Martin
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
School Was Our Life: Remembering Progressive Education (Nonfiction Book)
Studios
Watson
Jane Roland Martin worked in the Watson studio.
Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…