Education and Social Change : Themes in the History of American Schooling
ISBN: 9780805833393 | 0805833390
Format: PaperbackPublisher: LEA, Inc.
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002
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This brief, thematically-oriented text, which presents American educational hist within the larger framework of social change in America, is aimed at the hist portion of courses titled "Social and Historical Foundations of Educ" or "School and Society."<
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction: History, Social Change, and Education | p. 1 |
| Colonial Origins: Education in a Preindustrial Society | p. 22 |
| The 19th Century: Beginnings of a Modern School System | p. 55 |
| Ethnicity, Gender, and Race: Contours of Social Change in the 19th Century | p. 91 |
| The Progressive Era: Reform, Growth, and Differentiation | p. 130 |
| Education in Postwar America: The Human Capital... MORE | p. 174 |
| Epilogue | p. 219 |
| References | p. 229 |
| Index | p. 249 |
| Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
John L. Rury, a social historian who received his PhD in educational policy studies and history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is professor of education at DePaul University
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