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Head Masters : Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought.
Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced. Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology-the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character-played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal role in t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced. Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology-the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character-played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal role in the development of education. Stephen Tomlinson asserts instead that phrenology was a scientifically respectable theory of human nature, perhaps the first solid physiological psychology. He shows that the first phrenologists were among the most prominent scientists and intelle. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (456 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780817387327 0817387323 |