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Education and the culture of print in modern America /

"The essays demonstrate the richness and diversity of evidence available for the study of modern print culture in the United States and present an engaging variety of critical perspectives on the history of education."--Thomas Edward Augst, coeditor of Libraries as Agencies of Culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nelson, Adam R., Rudolph, John L., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010.
Colección:Print culture history in modern America.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Education, print culture, and the negotiation of meaning in modern America / Adam R. Nelson
  • Which truth, what fiction? : librarians' book recommendations for children, 1876-1890 / Kate McDowell
  • A "Colored Authors Collection" to exhibit to the world and educate a race / Michael Benjamin
  • Merry's flock : making something out of educational reform in the early twentieth century / Ryan K. Anderson
  • Printed presence : twentieth-century Catholic print culture for youngsters in the United States / Robert A. Orsi
  • Unschooled but not uneducated : print, public speaking, and the networks of informal working-class education, 1900-1940 / Frank Tobias Higbie
  • "Write as you fight" : the pedagogical agenda of the Working woman, 1929-1935 / Jane Greer
  • "A gentleman is no sissy" : reading, work, and citizenship in the Civilian Conservation Corps / Catherine Turner
  • State regulation of the textbook industry / Adam R. Shapiro
  • Teaching reading with television : constructing closed captioning using the rhetoric of literacy / Greg Downey
  • Conclusion: Education, work, and the culture of print : directions for future research / James P. Danky.