American educational history revisited : a critique of progress /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
[2003]
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| 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.