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The American People and Their Education A Social History

ISBN: 9780135253793 | 0135253799
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 9/3/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
For undergraduate and graduate courses in History of Education or Social Foundations. In an attempt to expand upon traditional course frameworks, this new text examines American education using a two-fold approachchronological and conceptual. The four text units comprise a journey from earliest Native American informal instruction to today's multimedia classrooms. Chapter titles reflect this chronological approach, while content within chapters presents material thematically, addressing the education of social groups as it evolved within each t... MORE
The Role of Clio: How the Past Influences the Present
2(11)
What is Education?
4(1)
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The Social History Perspective
5(1)
A Multicultural Approach
6(5)
PART I Education as Informal Experience11(56)
Family, Religion, and Education in Colonial America
12(32)
The First Americans and Their Children
13(7)
Traditional Native American Education
14(1)
European Influences
15(4)
Cultural Barter
19(1)
Educacion en Nuevo Espana
20(4)
Religion, Family, and Education
22(2)
The Educational Mosaic of the Atlantic Seacoast
24(20)
The Colonial Family
25(3)
Religion as Education
28(1)
Colonial Schools
29(6)
Tutors
35(1)
The Loosening of Institutional Bonds
36(8)
Early Nationalism and Education
44(23)
The Uncertain Nation
45(2)
The Watermelon Army
46(1)
Political Education
47(7)
``Raking a Few Geniuses from the Rubbish''
49(1)
``One Great, and Equally Enlightened Family''
50(1)
``Every Class of People Should Know and Love the Laws''
51(3)
``Republican Mothers''
54(4)
Female Academies
55(2)
American Women and Divorce
57(1)
The Great White Father
58(2)
Religion, Literacy, Work, and Civilization
58(1)
``The Five Civilized Tribes''
59(1)
The Growth of Government Bureaucracy
59(1)
Education on the Mexican Frontier
60(7)
Early Educational Developments
62(5)
PART II The Early Years of Formalized Schooling67(114)
The Common-School Era
68(40)
``All Were Instructed in the Same School''
69(13)
A World Turned Upside Down
69(3)
Schooling at the Local Levels
72(6)
The Common Schools
78(4)
``All Catholic Parents are Bound to Send Their Children to the Parish School''
82(4)
Little Germany
83(1)
Irish Catholics
83(3)
Coeducation
86(2)
``Obey Your Old Master and Your Young Master---Your Old Mistress and Your Young Mistress''
88(7)
The Planter's Educational Agenda
88(3)
Slave Values and Institutions
91(3)
Frederick Douglass
94(1)
Freedom's Land?
95(4)
The Origins of ``Separate But Equal''
97(2)
Special Children
99(9)
Institutional Isolation
99(9)
The Little Red One-Room Schoolhouse
108(22)
Ichabods and Schoolmarms
109(7)
The Birth of Teacher Training
110(1)
Certification
111(1)
``She Holds Her Commission From Nature''
112(3)
Compensation
115(1)
``Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child''
116(6)
Student Misbehavior
117(1)
Schoolkeeping
118(3)
Recalcitrant Children
121(1)
The Good Book
122(8)
McGuffey's Readers
123(7)
Education in the Gilded Age
130(51)
Teaching and Learning on the Western Frontier
132(5)
Westward Trek
133(1)
Early Settlement
134(2)
``Civilizing'' the West
136(1)
The White Man's Ways
137(5)
Reservation Day Schools and Boarding Schools
138(1)
Off-Reservation Boarding Schools
139(2)
Failure
141(1)
Mexican American Education on the Frontier
142(5)
Texas
144(1)
New Mexico
144(3)
The Common-School Movement in the South
147(3)
The Old South
147(1)
The New South
148(2)
African American Education in the South
150(9)
Native Schools
151(1)
Northern Missionaries
152(4)
Southern Industrial Education
156(3)
Race and The Crisis in the North
159(4)
Northern Schooling
160(1)
W. E. B. DuBois
160(3)
The Emergence of the Urban High School
163(6)
Early Patterns
163(1)
Academies
163(1)
The People's College
164(2)
``What ye learn in school ain't no good''
166(3)
The Public School Bureaucracy
169(12)
Systemization of the Schooling Process
170(1)
The Move from Local to State Control
171(10)
PART III The Emergence of the Modern American Public School181(118)
The Progressive Education Movement
182(44)
The Progressive Era
183(3)
The Mosaic of the Progressive Education Movement
186(28)
Muckrakers and Social Reformers
186(2)
Philosophy and Principles
188(4)
Child-Centered Progressives
192(6)
Social Reconstructionism
198(2)
``Administrative Progressives''
200(10)
Scientific Progressives
210(4)
Professionals or Workers?
214(12)
``Unquestioned Obedience''
214(2)
``Factoryizing Education''
216(1)
The Lowest Bidder
217(9)
Universal and Equal Schooling?
226(46)
``Our Children are Being Trained Like Dogs and Ponies'': The Schooling of the Poor and Working Class
Vocational Education and Tracking
228(4)
A New Social Order
232(2)
Special Schooling for Women
234(6)
Forces Undermining Identical Coeducation
235(1)
Gender-Differentiated Schooling
236(4)
``Equal But Separate?''
240(9)
Plessy v. Ferguson and De Jure Segregation
240(6)
The Northern Experience
246(3)
``The Problem of Indian Administration'': From Assimilation to Cultural Sensitivity and Back Again
249(3)
From Assimilation to Cultural Sensitivity...
250(1)
...And Back Again
250(2)
``The Culture Factory'': Immigrant Children in School
252(5)
Mass Migration
252(1)
Reaction and Assimilation
252(2)
``...I come back to Italy''
254(1)
The Public Schools
255(1)
The Catholic Parochial Schools
256(1)
Schooling for Mexican Americans
257(15)
De Jure Segregation
259(1)
Americanization
259(1)
Vocational Education
260(1)
Responses
260(12)
Schooling, Ideology, and National Policy
272(27)
Economic Upheaval and Total Warfare
273(10)
Adolescent Culture
274(3)
The American ``Teenager''
277(6)
``We Will Bury You''--Ideology, School Policy, and the Cold War
283(16)
The Red Scare
284(5)
The Generation Gap
289(10)
PART IV The Continuing Struggle for the Public School Ideal and Future Challenges299(76)
Civil Rights and Public Schooling
300(40)
``Separate Educational Facilities Are Inherently Unequal''
301(11)
The Grand Strategy
302(3)
Absolute Defiance (1955--1959)
305(2)
Token Compliance (1959--1964)
307(1)
Modest Compliance (1964--1968)
307(1)
Massive Integration (1968--1974)
308(3)
Resegregation
311(1)
``You Little Mexicans''
312(4)
``De facto Segregation'' (1950--1965)
312(1)
``Militant and Reformist'' Activities (1965--1975)
313(2)
``Conservative Retrenchment''
315(1)
``Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee''
316(3)
A Policy Shift in Native American Schooling
317(1)
Community Control of Schools
318(1)
A Dream Deferred?
319(1)
The Demise of June Cleaver?: Gender in the Classroom
319(4)
The Girl Next Door?
320(1)
Schooling for Girls
321(1)
Patriarchy's Resilience
322(1)
Teacher Power
323(3)
Strike!
324(2)
``School Officials do not Possess Absolute Authority Over Their Students''
326(6)
Freedom of Religious Practice
326(4)
Freedom of Speech
330(2)
Special Education
332(8)
``Parent Activism''
332(8)
School Reform and Public Reaction
340(35)
E Pluribus Unum?
342(5)
The Forgotten Immigrants
342(3)
Bilingual Education
345(2)
``The Monsters Next Door:'' American Youth Violence
347(3)
``A Nation of Jailers''
347(1)
School Safety
348(2)
Academic Freedom or Censorship?
350(6)
Teachers
350(2)
A Little Knowledge Can Be a Dangerous Thing
352(2)
What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You
354(2)
School Crises?
356(4)
The End of Progressive Education
356(2)
Schooling Is Too Rigid
358(1)
Schooling Is Not Rigorous Enough
359(1)
Are the Public Schools Failing?
360(6)
Family Values
362(4)
You Get What You Pay For: School Funding and Inequality
366(1)
The Continuing Struggle for the Public School Ideal
367(8)
Glossary375(6)
Author Index381(2)
Subject Index383

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