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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299501503321

Autore

da Silva Joseph

Titolo

School(house) Design and Curriculum in Nineteenth Century America : Historical and Theoretical Frameworks / / by Joseph da Silva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-78586-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

371.620973

Soggetti

Education—History

Curriculums (Courses of study)

Education—Curricula

Social justice

Human rights

History of Education

Curriculum Studies

Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. From Origin to Modernity: A Brief History of American School Design -- Chapter 3. Hotspot of Change: Case Studies in 19th Century Rhode Island -- Chapter 4. Structuring Sociality: School Design as Cultural (Re)production -- Chapter 5. Conclusion. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth century American school architecture and curriculum. While other studies have queried the intersections of school architecture and curriculum, they approach them without consideration for the ways in which their relationships are culturally formative—or how they reproduce or resist extant inequities in the United States. Da Silva addresses this gap in the school design archive with a cross-disciplinary approach, taking to task the cultural consequences of the relationship between these two primary elements of teaching and learning in a ‘hotspot’ of American education—the nineteenth century.



Providing a historical and theoretical framework for practitioners and scholars in evaluating the politics of modern American school design, the book holds a mirror to the oft-criticized state of American education today.