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The Young Composers : Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools /
Lucille M. Schultz's The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools is the first full-length history of school-based writing instruction. Schultz demonstrates that writing instruction in nineteenth-century American schools is much more important in the overall...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Studies in Writing and Rhetoric; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Telling Our Stories; 1. The Beginnings of Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Schools; The Early National Period and Learning by Rote; The Antebellum Period and the Great Educational Awakening; Post-Civil War Industrialization and the Turn to the Practical; 2. First Books of Composition; Walker's Pedagogy and the Reform Pedagogies of First Books; The Beginnings of the Democratization of Writing; 3. "No Ideas but in Things"; Pestalozzi in the American Classroom
- The Pestalozzi-Mayo-Frost ConnectionOther Pestalozzian "Showings"; Pestalozzi's Significance; 4. The Agency of Textbook Iconography; The History and Technology of Illustrations in Children's Books; Illustrations in Composition Texts; Framing Text and Cultural Codes; 5. Textual Practices of the Young Composers; Textbook Instruction and Classroom-Based Writing; Extracurricular Writing at Home: Letters and Memoirs; Extracurricular Writing at School: School Newspapers; Conclusion: "We Say to Him, Write!"; Appendixes
- 1. Tables of Contents from John Frost's Easy Exercises (1839) and George Quackenbos's First Lessons (1851) 2. Three Student Readings of an Illustration, 1886; 3. Student Essay: June 20, 1846; 4. Excerpt from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Autobiography, Eighty Years and More; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover