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The Common School Awakening : Religion and the Transatlantic Roots of American Public Education / David Russell Komline.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Komline, David Russell, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public schools.
- Church and education.
- Education--Aims and objectives.
- Education.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 pages)
- Other Title:
- Common School Awakening
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- The Common School Awakening' offers a new narrative that counters previous conceptions about the rise of public schools in America. In this text, David Komline tells how Christian reformers played a defining role in the movement to systematize and professionalize American education in the first half of the nineteenth century.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-008518-5
- 0-19-008516-9
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