Hard Travelin' and Still Havin' a Good Time

About the Book

For more than thirty years, the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands has been a focus of innovative education in the United States. This collection chronicles the last twenty-five years of this academic community's development. Johnston fosters student-centered learning through a contract system used to negotiate both course content and the terms under which each student graduates from Redlands. The essays investigate the collective coming of age of the Center, and explore the educational practices, alternative teaching and learning, instructive failures, cultural complexity, and rites of passage that have made it so successful.

About the Author

Proessor Kathy Ogren teaches American Studies and Jazz Studies in the Johnston Center, and the history department of the University of Redlands. She is also the author of The Jazz Revolution: 20s America and the Leaning of Jazz (Oxford UP, 1989).

Professor Bill McDonald teaches literature and humantities in the Johnston Center, and the English department of the University of Redlands. He is also the author of Thomas Mann's Joseph and his Brothers: Writing, Performance, and the Politics of Loyalty (Camden House, 1999).