The American school, 1642-2004

This current, comprehensive history of American education is designed to stimulate critical analysis and critical thinking by offering alternative interpretations of each historical period. The point of view taken by this text emphasizes 1) the role of multiculturalism and cultural domination in sha...

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Autor principal: Spring, Joel H. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston [etc.] : McGraw-Hill 2005
Edición:6th ed
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  • 1: Thinking Critically about History: Ideological Management and the Culture Wars
  • 2: Religion and Authority in Colonial Education
  • 3: The Ghost Dance and the Schooling of Native Americans
  • 4: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Moral Reform in the New Republic
  • 5: The Common School and the Threat of Cultural Pluralism
  • 6: The Ideology and Politics of the Common School
  • 7: Organizing the American School: The Nineteenth-Century Schoolmarm
  • 8: Educational Racism: Native Americans and Asian Americans
  • 9: Hispanic/Latino Americans: Exclusion and Segregation
  • 10: Education and Segregation: African Americans
  • 11: Growth of the Welfare Function of Schools: School Showers, Kindergarten, Playgrounds, and Social Centers
  • 12: The School and the Workplace: High School, Junior High School, and Vocational Guidance and Education
  • 13: Meritocracy: The Experts Take Charge
  • 14: The Politics of Knowledge: Teachers Unions, American Legion, Radicalism, Movies and Radio
  • 15: Education and National Policy
  • 16: The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars
  • 17: The End of the Century.