American educational history revisited : a critique of progress /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaither, Milton
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2003]
Series:Reflective history series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The myth of the new history of education and the progress principle
  • 1. Ideology and historical practice in early America. Puritans and planters
  • From Puritan to Whig
  • Histories of education in the revolutionary era
  • 2. The Whig tradition. Whig revisionism
  • From revision to tradition
  • 3. Educational history as professional science. From Christendom to civilization
  • National identity and global consciousness
  • Educational historiography on the margins of civilization
  • 4. Influence and contextualization in the twentieth century. Cubberley and the historical profession
  • The forgotten collaboration between historians and schoolmen
  • 5. Diversity and controversy in the twentieth century. Pioneers of black educational history
  • The flowering of women's educational historiography
  • The Whig interpretation under fire
  • 6. Why Bailyn was right despite being wrong. Eggleston, Davidson, and the search for an alternative to Whiggism
  • The death of progress and the end of educational history
  • Bailyn in context
  • A surprisingly limited legacy.