May 9, 1885 - April 13, 1953
Personal Data
Born: May 9, 1885
Died: April 13, 1953
One of 10 children. Orphaned at an early age.
Intermittent schooling. Entered college at 22, not able to read at college level. By the end of college, he was able to write articles for the newspaper, plays, essays and poetry.
Married: Hazel Taft, daughter of the Chair of the Horticultural Department at Michigan Agricultural College.
Education
Learned to read as adult at 20 years old
Entered Michigan Agricultural College at age 21
B.S. Michigan Agricultural College 1911
LL.D. Wagner Memorial Lutheran College, 1942
Employment
1894-1907 Laborer in agriculture, construction, and shipbuilding
1907-1911 Part-time work on the farm of the Michigan Agricultural College
1911-1920 Editor of the Gleaner, a Michigan agricultural journal
1912-1914 Assistant to the Minister of the Plymouth Congregational Church
1915-1918 4-H Club extension director (based at Michigan Agricultural College)
1918-1919 Instructor, YMCA George Williams College, Chicago
1919-1921 Teacher, North Carolina College for Women (first
1922-1924 Free-lance writing and private research
1924-1950 Professor of Social Philosophy, New York School of Social Work (later part of Columbia University
Several visiting professorships including University of California, Stanford University, Columbia University, and University of New Delhi, India
Awards and Honors
Member, National Child Labor Commission 1926-1937
Trustee, New School for Social Research 1943
Editor, Workers Education 1943
Advisory editor to Mentor Books 1946
Educational Advisor to the British Army of Occupation in Germany 1946
Honorary LL.D (Doctor of Liturgical Letters) Rockford College 1947
Chair, American Civil Liberties Union Commission on Academic Freedom (1949)
Membership-Professional Organizations
Director, Workers' Education Bureau of America 1926-1937
Executive Committee, New York Council on Adult Education 1933
President, New Jersey Conference of Social Work 1934
Board Member, Council Against Intolerance
Chairman, Federal Government Sub-Committee on Leisure, President's Interdepartmental Committee for Reorganizing 1938-1939
Director, American Association of Indian Affairs
International Committee on Teacher Training
Board Chair, Union for Democratic Action New York Branch 1945
Board Member, New York Association of Day Nurseries
American Association for Adult Education
Publications
1912 College Characters
1924 Self-education for Social Scientists
1926 The Meaning of Adult Education
1926 Andradogik: the Method of Teaching Adults
1929 The meaning of Adult Learning
1933 Dynamic of Social Research
1935 The place of Discussion in the Learning Process
1940 John Dewey as Educator
1944 New Needs of Adult Education
1947 Adult Education and the Democratic Discipline
Professional Interest Areas
Adult Education
Group Functions
Recreation and Leisure
The politics of change
Social Issues
Additional Resources
Articles
Photo Gallery
A little younger
Video/Audio
Presentations
Books
Interesting Facts
- He went from being unable to read until adulthood to being one of the most influential people in the field of adult education.
- He was forced to resign from the North Carolina College for Women, because he invited black people into his home. The Klu Klux Klan put pressure on the College. pset by the college faculty trying to tell him how to teach. Those two years (1922-1924) were spent as a free lance reporter.
- In the last year of his life, Lindeman was honored at a testimonial dinner. The chair of the American Civil Liberties Union wrote in a letter of tribute to him, "a catalogue of Dr. Lindeman's activities during this first seventy years might lead a careless visitor from Mars to believe that he was not a man but a syndicate." On that occasion, Malcolm Knowles wrote a letter to Lindeman on behalf of the Adult Education Association of the United States. In that letter Knowles said, "you have been the one `elder statesman' in the field to whom the younger organizers of the new Adult Education Association have consistently and confidently turned for inspiration, moral support, and wise. . . ."
- Daughter was auther of Friendly Rebel book.
- Inducted into International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.
References
KLonopka, G. (1958). Eduard C. Lindeman and social work philosophy. Minneaplis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Leonard, E. L. (1991). Friendly rebel: A personal and social history of Eduard C. Lindeman. Adamant, VT: Adamant Press.
Lindeman, E. C. (1926). The meaning of adult education. New York, NY: New Republic.
Lindeman, Eduard. Retrieved: http://nlu.nl.edu/academics/cas/ace/resources/eduardlindeman.cfm
Lindeman, Eduard. Retrieved: http://www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/l/lindeman.html
Course ADE 6080 Resource Center: Hall of Fame Document.
Stewart, D. W. (1987). Adult learning in America: Eduard Lindeman and his agenda for lifelong learning. Malabar, FL: Krieger.
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