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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Frontal Matter; 1. ""The Science of Man""; 2. Ideology and Education in Virginia; 3. Gall, Naturalist of the Mind; 4. The Birth of the Normal; 5. George Combe and the Rise of Phrenology in Britain; 6. Schooling for a New Moral World; 7. The Eye of the Community; 8. The Philosophy of Christianity; 9. James Simpson and the Necessity of Popular Education; Photographs follow page 205; 10. Insanity, Education, and the Introduction of Phrenology to America; 11. Phrenological Mann; 12. From Savagery to Civilization; 13. Guardians of the Republic.
- 14. The High Tide of Secularism15. The Education of Littlehead; 16. Race, Science, and the Republic; 17. Ministering to the Body Politic; Notes; Index.