Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

Carl F. Kaestle, Maris A. Vinovskis (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

372 Seiten

2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-10235-3 (ISBN)

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This important contribution to scholarship in social science history examines the development of public education in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Until the 1950s educational historians emphasized the relationship of schooling to the political system and the development of a common American culture. In recent years a social history perspective has emerged that stresses the socioeconomic influences that tie education to other institutions and processes in society rather than to political ideals. Carl Kaestle's and Maris Vinovskis's study is firmly grounded in this newer perspective. However, their work questions the adequacy of any single-factor explanation of the broad educational changes that occurred during this period - whether it be the emergence of factory production or the broader concept of modernization. They argue that these educational changes were the result of the complex interaction of cultural, demographic and economic variables operating in varying ways in different communities over time. Ethnicity, religion, urban status, the occupational structure, income distribution and wealth of the community all emerge as significant factors in this interaction.

1. Education and social change: Massachusetts as a case study; 2. Trends in school attendance in nineteenth-century Massachusetts; 3. From apron strings to ABCs: school entry in nineteenth-century Massachusetts; 4. The prospects of youth: school leaving in eight Essex County towns; 5. From one room to one system: the importance of rural–urban differences in nineteenth-century Massachusetts schooling; 6. Education and social change in two nineteenth-century Massachusetts communities; 7. Trends in educational funding and expenditures; 8. The politics of educational reform in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts; 9. Conclusion: the triumph of a state school system.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.3.2009
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	550 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-521-10235-9 / 0521102359
ISBN-13	978-0-521-10235-3 / 9780521102353
Zustand	Neuware