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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1. VerfasserIn: Komline, David (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press USA- OSO 2020
In:Jahr: 2020
Rezensionen:[Rezension von: Komline, David, The common school awakening] (2022) (Neem, Johann N.)
weitere Schlagwörter:B Public schools-United States-History-19th century
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Zusammenfassung: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