School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940

Name: School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940
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ISBN: 9780226772097

ISBN-10: 0226772098

ISBN-13: 9780226772097

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tracy L. Steffes

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“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife,” wrote John Dewey in his classic workThe School and Society. InSchool, Society, and State, Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940.American public schooling, Steffes shows, was not merely another reform project of the Progressive Era, but a central one. She addresses why Americans invested in public education and explains how an array of reformers subtly transformed schooling into a tool of social governance to address the consequences of industrialization…

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Tracy L. Steffesis assistant professor of history and education at Brown University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Urban School Reform, Professionalization, and the Science of Education



The Rural School Problem and the Complexities of National Reform



Redefining State Responsibility in Education



Public Interest and Parental Authority in the Compulsory School



Creating Citizens and Workers: Curriculum Reform and the Aims of Education in a Democracy


Conclusion: School, Society, and State


Notes


Index