Rethinking the History of American Education

by Reese, William J.; Rury, John L.

• ISBN13: 9780230600096
• ISBN10: 0230600093
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of original essays examines the history of American education as it has developed as a field since the 1970s and moves into a post-revisionist era and looks forward to possible new directions for the future. Contributors take a comprehensive approach, beginning with colonial education and spanning to modern day, while also looking at various aspects of education, from higher education, to curriculum, to the manifestation of social inequality in education. The essays speak to historians, educational researchers, policy makers and others seeking fresh perspectives on questions related to the historical development of schooling in the United States.

Author Biography

William J. Reese is Carl F. Kaestle WARF Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

John L. Rury is Professor of Education, Department of Teaching and Leadership, University of Kansas.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: An Evolving and Expanding Field of Study	p. 1
Literacy, Common Schools, and High Schools in Colonial and Antebellum America	p. 17
All Educational Politics Are Local: New Perspectives on Black Schooling in the Postbellum South	p. 47
"As Is the Teacher, So Is the School": Future Directions in the Historiography of African American Teachers	p. 73
American Public Schooling and European Immigrants in the Early Twentieth Century: A Post-Revisionist Synthesis	p. 103
The Historiography of Education for Girls and Women in the United States	p. 143
Children in American History	p. 161
Sites Students, Scholarship, and Structures: The Historiography of American Higher Education in the Post-Revisionist Era	p. 187
Curriculum History and Its Revisionist Legacy	p. 223
Bridging the Gap between Urban, Suburban, and Educational History	p. 245
The Federal Role in American Education: A Historiographical Essay	p. 261
Epilogue: New Directions in the History of Education	p. 281
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