The common school awakening religion and the transatlantic roots of American public education

"A statue of Horace Mann, erected in front of the Boston State House in 1863, declares him the "Father of the American Public School System." For over a century and a half, most narratives about early American education have proceeded as if this epithet were true. It has been etched i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Komline, David Russell, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Joseph Lancaster, monitorial education, and Christianity without sectarianism
  • "The schoolmaster is abroad" : early international influences on American education
  • Early attempts at revival in Massachusetts
  • The "Prussian system" : origins and transmission
  • "The educational regeneration of New England" : the height of the awakening in Massachusetts
  • The common school awakening in Ohio
  • An awakening for whom? : tensions in Ohio
  • Epilogue : the end of the awakening.