Thomas Jeffersons Philosophy Of Education

Author : M. Andrew Holowchak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317660633
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Education written by M. Andrew Holowchak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson had a profoundly advanced educational vision that went hand in hand with his political philosophy - each of which served the goal of human flourishing. His republicanism marked a break with the conservatism of traditional non-representative governments, characterized by birth and wealth and in neglect of the wants and needs of the people. Instead, Jefferson proposed social reforms which would allow people to express themselves freely, dictate their own course in life, and oversee their elected representatives. His educational vision aimed to instantiate a progressive social climate only dreamed of by utopists such as Thomas More, James Harrington and Louis-Sébastian Mercier. This book offers a critical articulation of the philosophy behind Jefferson’s thoughts on education. Divided into three parts, chapters include an analysis of his views on elementary and higher education, an investigation of education for both the moral-sense and rational faculty, and an examination of education as lifelong learning. Jefferson’s educational rationale was economic, political and philosophical, and his systemic approach to education conveys a systemic, economic approach to living, with strong affinities to Stoicism. Thomas Jefferson’s Philosophy of Education will be key reading for philosophers, historians and postgraduate students of education, the history of education and philosophy.

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652432
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson's Education written by Alan Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian comes a brilliant, absorbing study of Thomas Jefferson’s campaign to save Virginia through education. By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully written history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. It offers an incisive portrait of Thomas Jefferson set against a social fabric of planters in decline, enslaved black families torn apart by sales, and a hair-trigger code of male honor. A man of “deft evasions” who was both courtly and withdrawn, Jefferson sought control of his family and state from his lofty perch at Monticello. Never quite the egalitarian we wish him to be, he advocated emancipation but shrank from implementing it, entrusting that reform to the next generation. Devoted to the education of his granddaughters, he nevertheless accepted their subordination in a masculine culture. During the revolution, he proposed to educate all white children in Virginia, but later in life he narrowed his goal to building an elite university. In 1819 Jefferson’s intensive drive for state support of a new university succeeded. His intention was a university to educate the sons of Virginia’s wealthy planters, lawyers, and merchants, who might then democratize the state and in time rid it of slavery. But the university’s students, having absorbed the traditional vices of the Virginia gentry, preferred to practice and defend them. Opening in 1825, the university nearly collapsed as unruly students abused one another, the enslaved servants, and the faculty. Jefferson’s hopes of developing an enlightened leadership for the state were disappointed, and Virginia hardened its commitment to slavery in the coming years. The university was born with the flaws of a slave society. Instead, it was Jefferson’s beloved granddaughters who carried forward his faith in education by becoming dedicated teachers of a new generation of women.

Author : Oliver Van DeMille
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983099666
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thomas Jefferson Education written by Oliver Van DeMille and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Hellenbrand
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780874133707
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfinished Revolution written by Harold Hellenbrand and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kerry T. Burch
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303045763X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational Purpose written by Kerry T. Burch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book newly interprets the educational implications of Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary thought. In an age where American democracy is imperilled and the civic purposes of schooling eviscerated, Burch turns to Jefferson to help bring to life the values and principles that must be recovered in order for Americans to transcend the narrow purposes of education prescribed by today’s neoliberal paradigm. The author argues that critical engagement with the most radical dimensions of Jefferson’s educational philosophy can establish a rational basis upon which to re-establish the civic purposes of public education. Bracketing the defining features of Jefferson's theory throughout each of the chapters, the author illuminates the deficiencies of the dominant educational paradigm, and charts a new path forward for its progressive renewal.

Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher : Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Learning of Liberty written by Lorraine Smith Pangle and published by Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1993 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This very important book is original, sweeping, and wise about the relation between education and liberal democracy in the United States. The Pangles reconsider superior ideas from the founding period in a way that illuminates any serious thinking on American education, whether policy-oriented or historical". -- American Political Science Review. "An important and thoughtful book, stimulating for citizens as well as scholars". -- Journal of American History.

Author : Mark Holowchak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442220422
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dutiful Correspondent written by Mark Holowchak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of essays that examine Thomas Jefferson's own writings, Holowchak investigates the always profound and often provocative ideas of this founding father. Dutiful Correspondent explores Thomas Jefferson as a philosopher in his own right. Holowchak expands our view of Jefferson by examining his own words on issues such as race, politics, ethics, education, and the intersection of philosophy and science.

Author : James B. Conant
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520339045
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education written by James B. Conant and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

Author : Robert D. Heslep
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson & Education written by Robert D. Heslep and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cameron Addis
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jefferson's Vision for Education, 1760-1845 written by Cameron Addis and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though limited to white males, public education was a progressive idea for its time. All his bills failed. Even though Jefferson's own machinations stymied bills for a statewide system in the 1810s, the "hobby of his old age," the University of Virginia, opened in 1825.