Publisher's Synopsis
Although the system of correspondence course and home-study education has operated for nearly a century, until now there has been no single volume which analyzes its purpose, problems, and potentials. The contributing authors have compiled materials from many sources-including a faded 1883 issue of Harper's Weekly, the 1964 Russian Pedagogicheskaia Entsiklopediia, and original manuscripts from Sweden, Germany, and Japan-to provide the most far-reaching study possible. The book explores the background, the early experiments, and the current trends in this method of education which each year serves millions of students throughout the world, and is the first to do so on an international scale.
The Changing World of Correspondence Study fulfills the long-standing need for an authoritative, comprehensive handbook for readers, researchers, educators, and administrators.
