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There goes the neighborhood : rural school consolidation at the grass roots in early twentieth-century Iowa /
Despite being the centerpiece of rural educational reform for most of the twentieth century, rural school consolidation has received remarkably little scholarly attention. The social history and geography of the movement, the widespread resistance it provoked, and the cultural landscapes its propone...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction: Placing rural educational reform; 2 Family, neighborhood, church, and school; 3 The country life movement and moral landscapes of modernity; 4 The political economy of public schools in the midwest during the golden age; 5 Educational reform in early twentieth-century iowa; 6 Rural resistance to consolidation: who? why? where?; 7 Rural school consolidation and the social construction of place: a case study of delaware county; 8 Rural school consolidation and the making of buck creek; 9 Rural school consolidation and the remaking of buck creek.
- Epilogue: rural school consolidation
- misplacing educational reform?Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.