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School, society, and state : a new education to govern modern America, 1890-1940 /
& Ldquo;Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife, & rdquo; wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State, Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the connections between public school...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2012, ©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | & Ldquo;Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife, & rdquo; wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State, Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940. American public schooling, Steffes shows, was not merely another reform project of the Progressive Era, but a central one. She addresses why Americans invested in public education and explains how an array of refo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226772127 0226772128 1280126469 9781280126468 |