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The schoolroom : a social history of teaching and learning / Dale Allen Gyure.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gyure, Dale Allen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Education.
- Education--Social aspects.
- Schools.
- History.
- Classrooms.
- United States.
- Classrooms--United States--History.
- Schools--United States--Furniture, equipment, etc--History.
- Schools--Furniture, equipment, etc.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 215 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018.
- Contents:
- 1 The Schoolroom p. 1
- Colonial Beginnings p. 2
- The 19th Century p. 6
- Monitorial Schools p. 6
- Common Schools p. 8
- Graded Schools p. 10
- Pedagogy, Mental Discipline, and Moral Education p. 13
- Heating and Ventilation p. 19
- Hygiene p. 24
- 20th-century Reforms p. 26
- Child Saving p. 26
- Discipline and Order p. 28
- Educational Reforms p. 30
- Modern Schoolrooms p. 38
- The Healthy Classroom p. 38
- The Active Classroom p. 41
- Postwar Variations p. 47
- The Open Classroom p. 52
- The Odd-Shaped Classroom p. 63
- The Windowless Classroom p. 65
- The Technological Classroom p. 68
- 2 Schoolhouses p. 71
- Early School Buildings p. 74
- 19th-Century Developments p. 77
- The Quincy School p. 77
- Boston Latin and English High School p. 78
- High Schools p. 80
- The Image of the Schoolhouse p. 87
- The Monumental Era p. 91
- Minority Schools p. 93
- Standardization p. 95
- Depression and World War II p. 99
- Interwar Modernism p. 100
- Postwar Experimentation p. 105
- Opening the School p. 106
- The Casual School p. 112
- Curricular Changes p. 115
- Suburban Schools p. 119
- Prefabrication p. 125
- Urban Schools p. 128
- The 1970s and Beyond p. 138
- The 1970s p. 138
- Americans with Disabilities Act p. 140
- The 1980s and 1990s p. 141
- Back to the Future p. 145
- A New Century p. 146
- Showcase Schools p. 147
- Sustainability and Security p. 150
- 3 Objects of Education p. 153
- Blackboards p. 153
- Desks and Tables p. 155
- Radio p. 162
- Overhead Projectors p. 164
- Film p. 165
- Television p. 167
- Teaching Machines p. 169
- Computers p. 172
- 4 Ancillary Spaces p. 175
- Corridors p. 175
- Outdoor Corridors p. 182
- Lockers p. 183
- Relocatable (Portable) Schoolrooms p. 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gyure, Dale Allen. Schoolroom.
- ISBN:
- 9781440850370
- 1440850372
- OCLC:
- 1032289466
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