Horace Manns Troubling Legacy

Author : Bob Pepperman Taylor
Publisher : American Political Thought (Un
ISBN 13 : 9780700617456
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy written by Bob Pepperman Taylor and published by American Political Thought (Un. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassesses Horace Mann's philosophy of civic education. Argues that Mann's approach marginalized the role of schools in training the intellect, and that this anti-intellectual component has been retained in the current model of schooling in the United States.

Author : Jonathan Messerli
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horace Mann written by Jonathan Messerli and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this full-scale critical biography of Horace Mann, Jonathan Messerli has provided the first comprehensive portrait of the humanitarian reformer who helped lay the basis for the American public school system. Looking behind the father-of-the-system legend, Jonathan Messerli shows us the man himself in the context of his era, with its tensions and fears for the future of society. Mann's legal and political careers involved him in virtually every reform movement of his time -- a period when the poor, the intemperate, the enslaved, the illiterate, the imprisoned, the insane were seen by reformers not merely as objects of pity and benevolence, but as distressing challenges to the growing optimism of "the American way of life." Mr. Messerli shows Horace Mann on a one-man crusade to modify human nature through moral indoctrination of the young and systematic training in literacy and citizenship. Writing voluminously, lecturing across the country, Mann worked tirelessly to establish a public-based system of education that he would, he hoped, usher in a millennium of enlightened ethics, patriotism, brotherhood, and affluence. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Michael T. Rogers
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739193503
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century written by Michael T. Rogers and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine an America where governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote more informed citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together the research of scholars from various disciplines to show that by expanding what is done in isolation, we can realize such a healthy civic ecology.

Author : James D. McNiven
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627871411
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yankee Road written by James D. McNiven and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2015 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William A. Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807852619
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Civil War Era written by William A. Blair and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor. Table of Contents for this issue: Volume 1, Number 3: September 2011 Articles Jon Grinspan "Sorrowfully Amusing": The Popular Comedy of the Civil War Joan E. Cashin Trophies of War: Material Culture in the Civil War Era Anne E. Marshall The 1906 Uncle Tom's Cabin Law and the Politics of Race and Memory in Early-Twentieth-Century Kentucky Review Essay Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh Total War and the American Civil War Reconsidered: The End of an Outdated "Master Narrative" Book Reviews Books Received Professional Notes Barbara Franco Planned Commemorations: Unexpected Consequences Notes on Contributors The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.

Author : Jacqueline Jones
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307270394
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Savannah written by Jacqueline Jones and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. Here is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and whites, rich and poor, men and women from all walks of life confronting the transformations that would alter their city forever. Deeply researched and vividly written, Saving Savannah is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the Civil War years.

Author : Curtis J. Cardine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475872666
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horace’s Hope, Friedman’s Folly written by Curtis J. Cardine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace's Hope, Friedman's Folly explains the forces behind the current efforts to privatize education. It also works to debunk the idea that public education should be based on a capitalistic model of action that places education of our youth into the hands of corporations. It does this by presenting the original 6 principles of public education as espoused by Horace Mann, which is the basis of most state legislation concerning the creation of public schools. Citizens may not obtain both ignorance and freedom. The public should pay for, control, and maintain education. Children of different financial ladders should get the same education. The education that is taught must be nonsectarian (nonreligious). The education taught must use tenets of a free society. This education should be taught by professionally trained teachers. These principles are contrasted with the economic model of education promoted and theorized by economist Milton Friedman. A model that is re-segregating our children by race and creed rather than preparing them for life as a member of our democratic republic.

Author : Kerry McDonald
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641600667
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unschooled written by Kerry McDonald and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn't have to be. As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives. In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn. They are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children's natural curiosity and exuberance and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centers to allow young people's innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schooling.

Author : Jonathan Zimmerman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645648X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Contention written by Jonathan Zimmerman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like American schools are hotbeds of controversy. But as Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson show in this insightful book, it is precisely because such topics are so inflammatory outside school walls that they are so commonly avoided within them. And this, they argue, is a tremendous disservice to our students. Armed with a detailed history of the development of American educational policy and norms and a clear philosophical analysis of the value of contention in public discourse, they show that one of the best things American schools should do is face controversial topics dead on, right in their classrooms. Zimmerman and Robertson highlight an aspect of American politics that we know all too well: We are terrible at having informed, reasonable debates. We opt instead to hurl insults and accusations at one another or, worse, sit in silence and privately ridicule the other side. Wouldn’t an educational system that focuses on how to have such debates in civil and mutually respectful ways improve our public culture and help us overcome the political impasses that plague us today? To realize such a system, the authors argue that we need to not only better prepare our educators for the teaching of hot-button issues, but also provide them the professional autonomy and legal protection to do so. And we need to know exactly what constitutes a controversy, which is itself a controversial issue. The existence of climate change, for instance, should not be subject to discussion in schools: scientists overwhelmingly agree that it exists. How we prioritize it against other needs, such as economic growth, however—that is worth a debate. With clarity and common-sense wisdom, Zimmerman and Robertson show that our squeamishness over controversy in the classroom has left our students woefully underserved as future citizens. But they also show that we can fix it: if we all just agree to disagree, in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

Author : Nadira Jack
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004432213
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pedagogy of Consciousness written by Nadira Jack and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores innovative methodologies and tools for administrative leaders and teachers interested in propelling social reform in the educational sector and impacting members of the urban youth.