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The Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
Michael B. Katz ; reissued with a new introduction
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Teachers College Press, 2001.
- Language
- English
- Series
- Reflective History Series
- ISBN
- 0807740675 (cloth), 0807740667 (pbk.)
- Contents
- Introduction.: Educational Reform: The Cloud of Sentiment and Historiography 1
- 1. New Society 5
- 2. New Education 11
- Part I. Reform by Imposition: Social Origins of Educational Controversy 19
- 1. Abolition of Beverly High School 19
- 2. Educational Promoters and the High School 27
- 3. Local Opposition to Reform 50
- 4. Lawrence: From Model Town to Primary School of Vice 93
- Part II. Uses of Pedagogy: Teachers and the Educational Process 115
- 1. Heresy of Cyrus Peirce 115
- 2. Society's Hot Stimulus of Action and the Necessity of Restraint 117
- 3. True Idea of Education 124
- 4. A New Motive to Moral Excellence vs. Emulation 131
- 5. God's Gardener: Strategies of Teacher Mobility 153
- Part III. Compulsory Education and the Urban Delinquent: The State Reform School 163
- 1. Reformers Against the Reform School 163
- 2. Delinquency and the Grading of Prisons 164
- 3. From Favorable Impressions to Imperfection of the Stock: The Theory of Crime and Poverty 170
- 4. At Once a Home and a School 185
- 5. Results of Reform 202
- Conclusion.: Educational Reform: Myths and Limits 213
- Appendix A. Massachusetts Social, Economic, and Educational Statistics 221
- Appendix B. Communities and Education: An Analysis of Variance 225
- Appendix C. Social Composition of High School Enrollment 270
- Appendix D. Beverly: Analysis of the 1860 Vote on the High School Issue 272.
- Description
- xxxix, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1968.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-319) and index.
- Technical Details
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- Access in Virgo Classic
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