The American school, 1642-2000 / Joel Spring.
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TextPublisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2001Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xii, 452 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0072322748 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Education -- United States -- History | Education -- Social aspects -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Reference | 370.973 Sp82 2001 (Browse shelf) | Available | 3UCBL000010059 |
Rev. ed. of: The American school, 1642-1996. 4th ed. c1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 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. Nattionalism, 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 fumction 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.
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