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Education and social change : themes in the history of American schooling / John L. Rury.
LIBRA LA205 .R67 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rury, John L., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--United States--History.
- Education.
- United States.
- History.
- Educational sociology--United States.
- Educational sociology.
- Social change--United States.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 255 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: History, Social Change, and Education 1
- 2 Colonial Origins: Education in a Preindustrial Society 22
- 3 The 19th Century: Beginnings of a Modern School System 55
- 4 Ethnicity, Gender, and Race: Contours of Social Change in the 19th Century 91
- 5 The Progressive Era: Reform, Growth, and Differentiation 130
- 6 Education in Postwar America: The Human Capital Revolution 174.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0805833390
- OCLC:
- 48435179
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