The Common School Awakening: Religion and the Transatlantic Roots of American Public Education
The Common School Awakening offers a new narrative that counters previous conceptions about the rise of public schools in America. In this book, David Komline tells how Christian reformers played a defining role in the movement to systematize and professionalize American education in the first half...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press USA- OSO
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Komline, David, The common school awakening] (2022) (Neem, Johann N.)
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| Further subjects: | B
Public schools-United States-History-19th century
B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780190085155 |
| Summary: | The Common School Awakening offers a new narrative that counters previous conceptions about the rise of public schools in America. In this book, David Komline tells how Christian reformers played a defining role in the movement to systematize and professionalize American education in the first half of the nineteenth century. Cover -- The Common School Awakening -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Joseph Lancaster, Monitorial Education, and Christianity without Sectarianism -- 2 "The Schoolmaster Is Abroad": Early International Influences on American Education -- 3 Early Attempts at Revival in Massachusetts -- 4 The "Prussian System": Origins and Transmission -- 5 "The Educational Regeneration of New England": The Height of the Awakening in Massachusetts -- 6 The Common School Awakening in Ohio -- 7 An Awakening for Whom? Tensions in Ohio -- Epilogue: The End of the Awakening -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0190085177 |