History of American schoolbooks

The lineage of American schoolbooks, like that of our educational system, goes back to Europe and, particularly, to England. The first schoolbooks used in the United States were printed in England and for two hundred years a great influx of books came from sources outside this country. However, with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carpenter, Charles H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press [1963]
Colección:University of Pennsylvania Press anniversary collection.
Temas:
Textbooks > United States > History.
Manuels d'enseignement supérieur > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > History.
Textbooks
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The early American schools
  • 2. The New England Primer
  • 3. Nineteenth-century primers
  • 4. Special primers
  • 5. Beginning of readers
  • 6. Following the initial readers
  • 7. The McGuffey and contemporary readers
  • 8. Grammars
  • 9. Rhetorics and foreign language books
  • 10. Arithmetics
  • 11. Spelling books
  • 12. Literature texts
  • 13. Elocution manuals
  • 14. Handwriting and copybooks
  • 15. School histories
  • 16. General science texts
  • 17. Physiologies and mental science texts
  • 18. Geographies
  • 19. Progress of schoolbook publishing.

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