School, Society, and State : A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
022643530X
ISBN-13
9780226435305
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 5th, 2017
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
420 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 31.00 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Education
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"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife," wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State, Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940. American public schooling, Steffes shows, was not merely another reform project of the Progressive Era, but a central one. She addresses why Americans invested in public education and explains how an array of reformers subtly transformed schooling into a tool of social governance to address the consequences of industrialization and urbanization. By extending the reach of schools, broadening their mandate, and expanding their authority over the well-being of children, the state assumed a defining role in the education and in the lives of American families. In School, Society, and State, Steffes returns the state to the study of the history of education and brings the schools back into our discussion of state power during a pivotal moment in American political development.
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