Bending the Future to Their Will

by Crocco, Margaret Smith; Davis, O. L., Jr.; Bohan, Chara Haeussler; Davis Jr, O L.; Field, Sherry; Makler, Andra; Monteverde, Frances E.; Mullen, Andrew Dean; Munro Henry, Petra; Nelson, Murry R.; Bernard-Powers, Jane; Yeager, Elizabeth Anne

• ISBN13: 9780847691128
• ISBN10: 0847691128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-20
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives of eleven women educators and social activists concerned over the last century with issues of difference in schools and society. 9780847691142 In Critical Ethnicity, leading scholars from several disciplines expl

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(16)
Margaret Smith Crocco
Considering the Source: Mary Sheldon Barnes	17	(30)
Frances E. Monteverde
Lucy Maynard Salmon: Progressive Historian, Teacher, and Democrat	47	(26)
Chara Hauessler Bohan
``Widening the Circle'': Jane Addams, Gender, and the Re/Definition of Democracy	73	(20)
Petra Munro
Shaping Inclusive Education: Mary Ritter Beard and Marion Thompson Wright	93	(32)
Margaret Smith Crocco
Lucy Sprague Mitchell: Teacher, Geographer, and Teacher Educator	125	(24)
Sherry L. Field
Bessie Louise Pierce and Her Contributions to the Social Studies	149	(20)
Murry R. Nelson
Rachel Davis DuBois: Intercultural Education Pioneer	169	(16)
O. L. Davis Jr.
Composing Her Life: Hilda Taba and Social Studies History	185	(22)
Jane Bernard-Powers
Alice Miel: Progressive Advocate of Democratic Social Learning for Children	207	(28)
Elizabeth Anne Yeager
The Search for a Coherent Curriculum Vision: Hazel Whitman Hertzberg	235	(18)
Andrew Mullen
Courage, Conviction, and Social Education	253	(24)
Andra Makler
Index	277	(12)
About the Contributors	289