The American school : a global context from the Puritans to the Obama era

✍ Scribed by Joel Spring.

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 491
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Global Context From the Puritans to the Obama Era by Joel Spring focuses on the process of educational globalization and the development of American schools in a global context. --Book Jacket.

1. Thinking critically about history --

Interpreting school history: from the right to the left --

Purposes of educational history and its effect on public images and emotions regarding schools --

Themes in American educational history --

Globalization framework --

The effect of cultural and religious differences on schools --

Schools as managers of public thought --

Racial and ethnic conflict as a theme in school history --

The role in educational history of equality of opportunity and human capital --

Consumer and environmental education --

2. Globalization and religion in colonial education --

Education and culture in colonial society --

The role of education in colonial society --

Historical interpretations of colonial education --

Authority and social status in colonial education --

Colonialism and educational policy --

Language and cultural conflict --

Native Americans: education as cultural imperialism --

Enslaved Africans: Atlantic Creoles --

Enslaved Africans: the plantation system --

The idea of secular freedom: freedom of thought and the establishment of academies --

Benjamin Franklin and education as social mobility --

The family and the child --

Conclusion --

3. Nationalism, multiculturalism, and moral reform in the new republic --

World culture theorists --

The problem of cultural diversity --

Noah Webster: nationalism and the creation of a dominant culture --

Thomas Jefferson: a natural aristocracy --

Moral reform and faculty psychology --

Concepts of childhood: protected, working, poor, rural, and enslaved --

Charity schools, the Lancasterian system, and prisons --

Institutional change and the American college --

Public versus private schools --

Conclusion: continuing issues in American education --

4. The ideology and politics of the Common School --

Three distinctive features of the Common School Movement --

Workingmen and the struggle for a republican education --

How much government involvement in schools? The Whigs and the Democrats --

The birth of the high school --

The continuing debate about the Common School ideal --

Conclusion --

5. The Common School and the threat of cultural pluralism --

The increasing multicultural population of the United States --

Irish Catholics: a threat to Anglo-American schools and culture --

Slavery and freedom in the North: African Americans and school in the new republic --

Native Americans --

Conclusion. 6. Organizing the American school: teachers and bureaucracy --

The American teacher --

Revolution in teaching methods: object learning --

The evolution of bureaucracy: a global model --

The age-graded classroom --

McGuffey's Readers and the spirit of capitalism --

Conclusion --

7. Multiculturalism and the failure of the Common School ideal --

Mexican Americans: race and citizenship --

Asian Americans: exclusion and segregation --

Native American citizenship --

Educational racism and deculturalization --

Citizenship for African Americans --

Issues regarding Puerto Rican citizenship --

Conclusion: setting the stage for the great Civil Rights Movement --

8. Global migration and the growth of the welfare function of schools --

Immigration from southern and eastern Europe --

The Kindergarten Movement --

Home Economics: education of the new consumer woman --

School cafeterias, the American cuisine, and processed foods --

The Play Movement --

Summer school --

Social centers --

The New Culture Wars --

Resisting segregation: African Americans --

Resisting segregation: Mexican Americans --

Native American boarding schools --

Resisting discrimination: Asian Americans --

Educational resistance in Puerto Rico --

Conclusion: public schooling as America's welfare institution --

9. Human capital: high school, junior high school, and vocational guidance and education --

The high school --

Vocational education --

Junior high school --

Adapting the classroom to the workplace: lesson plans --

Adapting the classroom to the workplace: progressivism --

Adapting the classroom to the workplace: stimulus-response --

Classroom management as preparation for factory life --

Historical interpretations: public benefit or corporate greed? --

Conclusion: the meaning of equality of opportunity --

10. Scientific school management: testing, immigrants, and experts --

Scientifically managed schools: meritocracy and reducing public control --

Professionalizing educational administration --

Measurement, democracy, and the superiority of Anglo-Americans --

Closing the door to immigrants: the 1924 Immigration Act --

"Backward" children and special classrooms --

Eugenics and the Age of Sterilization --

The university and meritocracy --

Conclusion. 11. The politics of knowledge: teachers' unions, the American Legion, and the American way --

Teachers versus administrators: the American Federation of Teachers --

The rise of the National Education Association --

The political changes of the depression years --

The politics of ideological management: the American Legion --

Selling the "American way" in schools and on billboards --

Conclusion --

12. Schools, media, and popular culture: influencing the minds of children and teenagers --

Censorship of movies as a form of public education --

Educators and the movies --

The production code: movies as educators --

Should commercial radio or educators determine national culture? --

Creating the superhero for children's radio --

Controlling the influence of comic books --

Educating children as consumers --

The creation of teenage markets --

Children and youth from the 1950s to the Twenty-first Century --

Conclusion --

13. American schools and global politics: the Cold War and poverty --

Youth unemployment: universal military service and the GI Bill --

The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Educational Testing Service --

The Cold War and purging the schools of communists --

American schools: weakest link to global victory? --

Global imperatives: the National Defense Education Act --

Schools and the War on Poverty --

Sesame Street and educational television --

Conclusion --

14. The fruits of globalization: civil rights, global migration, and multicultural education --

Ending school segregation of national minorities --

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. --

Native Americans and indigenous educational rights --

Asian Americans: educating the "model minority" --

Hispanic/Latino Americans --

Bilingual education: the Culture Wars continued --

The Immigration Act of 1965 and the new American population --

Multicultural education and the Culture Wars --

Schools and the International women's Movement --

Children with special needs --

The coloring of Textbook Town --

Liberating the Textbook Town housewife for more consumption --

Conclusion: the Cold War and civil rights --

15. Globalizing the American school: from Nixon to Obama --

School prayer and bible reading --

The Nixon years: career education and busing --

Accountability and standardized testing --

Global educational goals: national standards, choice, and savage inequalities --

The end of the Common School: choice, privatization, and charter schools --

Educating for the consumer economy --

Education for global work and consumption --

The 2008 election: global economy and cultural divide --

Global crisis and the demise of environmental education --

Conclusion: from Horace Mann to Barack Obama.