The American state normal school : an instrument of great good / / Christine A. Ogren

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817652803321
• Autore: Ogren Christine A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave Macmillian, 2005
• ISBN: 1-281-36438-X; 9786611364380; 1-4039-7910-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.09
• Soggetti: Teachers colleges - United States - History; Educational change - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "It Wasn't Much of a College" -- Part I Early Normal Schools, 1840s-1860s -- 1 "To Awaken the Conscience": Establishing Teacher Education and State Normal Schools -- Part II The Heyday of the State Normal School, 1870s-1900s -- 2 "The Masses and Not the Classes": A Tradition of Welcoming Nontraditional Students -- 3 "Substantial Branches of Learning" and "A Higher Degree of Culture": Academic Studies and Intellectual Life -- 4 Teacher Education: Breathing "The Ozone of Teaching" -- 5 "Noble" Men and "Not Necessarily Bloomer Women": The Public Sphere, Gender Attitudes, and Life Choices -- Epilogue: "Lots of Pep! Lots of Steam!" -- Epilogue: "Lots of Pep! Lots of Steam!" -- Appendix: State Normal Schools in the United States -- Abbreviations of Archival Collections -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: The American State Normal School is the first comprehensive history of the state normal schools in the United States. Although nearly two-hundred state colleges and regional universities throughout the U.S. began as 'normal' schools, the institutions themselves have buried their history, and scholars have largely overlooked them. As these ; institutions later became state colleges and/or regional universities, they distanced themselves from the low status of elementary-literally erasing physical evidence of their normal-school past. In doing so, they buried the rich history of generations of students for whom attending normal school was an enriching, and sometimes life-changing experience. Focusing on these students, the first wave of 'non-traditional' students in higher education, The American State Normal School is a much-needed re-examination of the state normal school.This book was subject of an annual History of Education Society panel for best new books in the field.