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Languages : en
Pages : 660
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The Chautauquan
Author: The Chautauquan
Author: Theodore L. FloodCircuit Chautauqua
Author: John E. TapiaPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786402137
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In the late 19th century the chautauqua movement became a popular form of adult education and entertainment in the United States. With noted lyceum speakers (such as Teddy Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan) and local talent, the movement spread throughout the country and was particularly popular in the rural areas of the Midwest. An overview of the lyceum and of adult education in 19th century America is followed by an examination of the rise of the circuit chautauqua. Its popularity during the 1920s is detailed as is its demise, brought on by the Great Depression and the rise of the film industry.
Books in Series
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 1858
Book Description
Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.
Library of Congress Catalog
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: The Citizen
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Category : University extension
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2162
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Knowledge is Power!
Author: Tom SteelePublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039105632
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This study is the first extensive attempt to chart the rise and fall of popular educational movements across Europe following the 1848 revolutions to their demise at the outbreak of World War Two. It examines in detail the relationships between the educational, political and social aspirations of the emergent nationalist, workers' and women's movements, and the challenge to traditional intellectuals and academic knowledge. Following the emergence of the bourgeois public sphere in the early modern period, popular educational movements were central to the pursuit of democratic civil societies and also fertile ground for innovatory subjects of knowledge and interdisciplinary study, which have frequently reshaped the academic curriculum. Radical forms flourished, ranging from civic educational leagues to folk high schools, workers' study circles, rationalist schools, Volksheims and university settlements that fed the demand for high-quality, socially relevant and politically charged education for adults. These stimulated radical social change, challenging the old empires and clerical domination. The study plots the cross-cultural influences at work and shows why some models were more palatable than others, drawing special attention to the rise of sociological positivism and anti-clericalism. It concludes by considering the contemporary global currents of renewal.
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