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    Mobile schools were popularised by McDonald and are also known as schools without walls. They involve obtaining self-experience in a social setting through direct personal participation. The first floating university was the Shipboard University which travelled on the S.S. Universe with 461 students and 70 teachers visiting 10 countries over 100 days. Alternative schools like the Dalton Plan and Winnetka Plan individualized instruction for students to progress at their own pace in subject laboratories. The Howard Plan and Platoon System also utilized different grouping structures and schedules to differentiate instruction. Various founders and thinkers pioneered different models of mobile, floating, non-classroom and alternative learning schools.

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    Mobile schools were popularised by McDonald and are also known as schools without walls. They involve obtaining self-experience in a social setting through direct personal participation. The first floating university was the Shipboard University which travelled on the S.S. Universe with 461 students and 70 teachers visiting 10 countries over 100 days. Alternative schools like the Dalton Plan and Winnetka Plan individualized instruction for students to progress at their own pace in subject laboratories. The Howard Plan and Platoon System also utilized different grouping structures and schedules to differentiate instruction. Various founders and thinkers pioneered different models of mobile, floating, non-classroom and alternative learning schools.

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    Mobile Schools: Mcdonald Schools Without Walls Self Experience in A Social Setting

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    Mobile Schools

    Concept popularised by McDonald


    Otherwise known as schools without walls
    Obtaining self experience in a social setting
    Directly involve in them by personal participation
    Some responsibilities could be assigned to parents as

    in the philosophy of Deschooling the society

    Floating University
    It is the extension of the concept of mobile school
    First floating university Shipboard University
    S.S Universe, 461 students of USA, 70 teachers
    Visited 13 ports situated in 10 countries of the world
    Arrived Chennai in 1978
    To complete one semester, they travelled for 100 days

    in the ship
    When they landed in port, they visited socially and
    culturally significant places in and around port city
    This method of imparting education is highly expensive

    Alternative schools-Dalton plan


    It was introduced by Miss Helen Pankhurst in 1908
    It was a study plan based on Instructional contracts
    1919, Pankhurst opened a small school in the town

    of Dalton in the State of Massachusetts.


    This study plan based on the Montessori method
    wherein pupils can progress at their own speed
    Applied for std IV and above
    No classrooms, only subject laboratories headed by
    experts
    Each child for each subject get Assignment cards
    He/she will help the students during free hours only

    Alternative schools- Winnetka plan


    Carleton washbourne-1919-expt school- Winnetka

    plan at Winnetka in Illinois province of America


    Individualizing instruction at the primary level
    Only for class I VI
    Each child in a class gets a Goal Card
    Curriculum common essentials and cultural and
    creative experiences
    No peer group cooperation
    No class difference

    Alternative schools- Howard plan


    School run in the name of John Howard in claffton
    Howard plan resembles largely Daltons plan in its

    style of functioning
    Students are classified in vertical groups Houses
    Each subject is divided into stages
    Each stage there are Class subjects and Card subjects
    Each child is considered to belong a house
    Each house has House mistress is specially trained
    In the same house we can see pupils with different
    ages with different levels of progress attained

    Alternative schools- Platoon system


    It was organized by William Wirt, Indiana, USA
    The platoon system divided school into two groups
    A group received instruction in the 3Rs for 2 hours

    daily
    B group studied subject like arts and games
    The two groups interchange their activities
    periodically and get involved in learning in a more
    practical way
    Wirt adopted Deweys idea of education

    List of schools and their Founders


    Mobile schools- McDonald
    Deschooling- Ivan Illich
    Non Classroom Learning- John Holt
    Community schools Henry Morris
    Sainik schools V.K Krishna Menon 1961
    Alternatives in public schools- Mario d Fantini

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