The Rise of the South in American Thought and Education: The Rockefeller Years (1902-1917) and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781433158643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 268 str.

John M. Heffron

Opis

The Rise of the South in American Thought and Education: The Rockefeller Years (1902-1917), and Beyond documents the rise-both real and imaginary-of the South in American thought and education at the close of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.

Recenzje

"In this important book, Heffron upends the received narrative of a triumphant North reforming the South in the years after the Civil War, showing how Northern industrialists drew on the Southern tradition as a model for the nation in the late nineteenth century. He demonstrates how the most powerful force in national school reform during this era-the General Education Board lavishly funded by the Rockefellers-promoted a Dixie-based model of progressive schooling that featured vocationalism, racial and ethnic paternalism, class hierarchy, and traditional religious values. The result was a triumph of Southern culture rising from the ashes of military defeat." -David F. Labaree, author of A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Introduction - "Old times there are not forgotten": A Didactic New South in the Development Plans of the North, 1880-1903 - Moral and Practical Uplift in the New Agricultural Education: Nation-Building for a Solid South, 1900-1920 - "To Form a More Perfect Union": The Moral Example of Southern Baptist Thought and Education, 1890-1920 - Otis W. Caldwell, Part I: Nature Study, Ecumenicalism, and the Rise of General Science - Otis W. Caldwell, Part II: The Mission of Science in General Education - Race Education for All: "The Hampton-Tuskegee Idea" and Its Americanization - The New Machinery of Social Discipline: Educating for an Immigrant Nation, the Case of the Gary Schools - The Lincoln School of Teachers College: Elitism and Educational Democracy - Epilogue: The Global (American) South: The Past as Prologue? - Index.

O autorze

John M. Heffron, Ph.D. is Professor of Educational History and Culture and Director of the MA Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change at Soka University of America. He completed his doctorate in American history at the University of Rochester.