Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of An American National Identity: Education's "errand Into the Wilderness"

by McKnight, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780805843170
• ISBN10: 0805843175
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Explores the relationship between the purposes of education and the notion of an American identity and morality rooted in the Puritan concept of an "errand into the wilderness."

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Puritan Gift: The Historical Condition of Writing the Symbolic Narrative of America	1	(22)
Puritan Moral Symbols: Errand Into the Wilderness and the Jeremiad Ritual	23	(18)
Finding Order and Balance Between Faith and Reason Through Educational Maps	41	(22)
Inheriting the Errand: Hopes and Fears of the Anglo-Protestant Middle Class	63	(19)
The New Discourses of Education: ``Reason'' to Preserve the Moral Imperative	82	(16)
Public Education as Moral Transcendence: William Torrey Harris and the Errand Impulse	98	(24)
Moral Crisis of America and Its Schools: Return of the Jeremiad Ritual	122	(21)
Afterword	143	(8)
References	151	(10)
Author Index	161	(2)
Subject Index	163