Education, society, and economic opportunity : a historical perspective on persistent issues /
Maris Vinovskis critically reviews and integrates recent work in educational history and provides new research on neglected topics. He discusses such issues as: the gradual shift from the family to the public schools in the responsibility for educating the young; the rise and fall of infant schools...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1995]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Family, schools, and the challenges of economic opportunity and social reform
- Family and schooling in colonial and nineteenth-century America
- A ray of millennial light: early education and social reform in the Infant School Movement in Massachusetts, 1826-40 (with Dean May)
- The crisis in moral education in Antebellum Massachusetts
- Schooling and poverty in nineteenth-century America
- Horace Mann on the economic productivity of education
- Immigrants and schooling
- Attendance, institutional arrangements, and social support for education
- The controversy over the Beverly High School
- Have we underestimated the extent of Antebellum High School attendance?
- Public high school attendance in Massachusetts in 1875
- Historical development of age stratification in schooling (with David L. Angus and Jeffrey E. Mirel)
- A historical perspective on support for schooling by different age cohorts.