The American model of state and school an historical inquiry
"State and Schools argues that the American educational model represents a third way of organizing the provision of schooling, and that this accounts for some of its strengths as well as some of its weaknesses. Charles L. Glenn looks closely at the tradition of democratic localism in the manage...
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| Language: | English |
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New York
Bloomsbury Academic
2012, 2018
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| Collection: | Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Weakness and Strengths of the American Model of Schooling
- Chapter 1: Colonial Background
- Chapter 2: The Idea of Forming Citizens
- Chapter 3: Religion as Source of Cooperation
- Chapter 4: Schooling and Local Democracy
- Chapter 5: Schooling as Protection for Society
- Chapter 6: Toward the Educator-State
- Chapter 7: Religion as Source of Conflict
- Chapter 8: Re-defining the Teacher
- Chapter 9: The Educators Find Their Prophet
- Chapter 10: Concluding Reflections
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-262) and index