Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A Statement of the Theory of Education in the United States of America
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A Statement of the Theory of Education in the United States as Approved by Many Leading Educators
Author: Duane DotyA Statement of the Theory of Education in the United States of America, as Approved by Many Leading Educators
Author: United States. Bureau of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Statement of the Theory of Education in the United States of America, as Approved by Many Leading Educators.
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Statement of the Theory of Education in the United States of America
Author: Pamphlets
Author: United States. Bureau of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Verschiedene Drucksachen Des National Departement of Education U. Des Bureau of Education, Dept. of the Interior, Der Vereinigten Staaten Von Nordamerica
Author: Flora White
Author: Linda C. MoricePublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498542395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Flora White: In the Vanguard of Gender Equity draws on a collection of personal papers (only recently made available to scholars) to present the life of a colorful New England educator who lived from the Civil War to the Cold War. Throughout her career, White worked to promote the physical and intellectual growth of girls and young women beyond the narrow gender stereotypes of the day. Although White’s name is not a household word, this book represents a newer form of biography in which the life of a lesser-known individual serves as a lens for understanding larger social and cultural developments. In Flora White’s case, this newer biographical approach produced findings to inform research in both educational history and gender studies. For example, White’s papers correct some longstanding misconceptions about the origins of the progressive education movement and the role women played in it. White’s sources also shed light on the complicated relationships of educated (but marginalized) U.S. women and the prominent men who mentored them. In addition, White’s papers show that--in order to protect herself from those who might find her words objectionable—she used coded language (such as poetry) to counter sexist stereotypes and advance her desire for a fuller life for her students and herself. Although, upon her death, a newspaper obituary praised White for being recognized by “men of note” in educational circles, her efforts to promote the physical and intellectual development of girls and women helped to create opportunity that is still unfolding today.
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity
Author: Douglas McKnightPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135631069
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis, with national identity fractured and uncertainty and anxiety about the future. Public schools in this country are, historically and still today, the major institution charged with preserving and teaching the symbols of national identity and a morality that is the concrete expression of those symbols and the ideas for which they stand. A widespread belief is that only through schooling can America be saved from the current "crisis," but the schools have failed in this mission and must be reformed. In this book, Douglas McKnight develops a historical interpretation of how the New England Puritans generated a powerful belief system and set of symbols that have fed American identity and contributed to preserving and perpetuating it into the present time. He explores the relationship between the purposes of education (and how this term has shifted in meaning) and the notion of an American identity and morality--rooted in the Puritan concept of an "errand into the wilderness"--that serves a particular sacred/secular purpose. The phrase "errand into the wilderness" is taken from a 1956 book by Perry Miller with this title, where it refers to the Puritan dream of creating a city in the wilderness (the North American Colonies) that would be a utopian community--a beacon for the rest of the world for how to organize and live in the ideal religious community. Highly pertinent to the current debate about the purposes and crisis in education and in America, morality in schools, the cultural function of education, the changing nature of the language of education, the complex relation of schooling and national identity, this book explicates these elements within the American psyche by exploring the effects of the Puritan "symbolic narrative" at three different points in American history: Puritans during the 1600s and 1700s; the Gilded Age, when the urban Protestant middle class ascended to cultural dominance; and the present age. Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity: Education's "Errand Into the Wilderness" makes an important contribution to the fields of curriculum studies and the history of education. It will interest students and scholars in these fields, as well as those in educational philosophy, religion and education, intellectual and social history, and American studies.