Chartered schools : two hundred years of independent academies in the United States, 1727-1925 / / edited by Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.02/0973
• Soggetto topico: Private schools - United States - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BeadieNancy <1958-> TolleyKimberley
• Note generali: First published 2002 by RoutledgeFalmer.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; A School for Every Purpose: An Introduction to the History of Academies in the United States; Institutions: Origins and Purposes; Mapping the Landscape of Higher Schooling, 1727-1850; From Anstalt to Academy: Moravian Boarding Education for Native American Children in the Eighteenth Century; ""A Triumph of Reason"": Female Education in Academies in the New Republic; Students: Meaning and Culture ; Internal Improvement: The Structure and Culture of Academy Expansion in New York State in the Antebellum Era, 1820-1860""Endeavor to Improve Yourself"": The Education of White Women in the Antebellum South; ""A Good and Delicious Country"": Free Children of Color and How They Learned to Imagine the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana; Teachers and Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities; Leaving Home to Teach: The Diary of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1841; ""Creating an Educational Interest"": Sophia Sawyer, Teacher of the Cherokee ; Alternative Pedagogy: The Rise of the Private Black Academy in Early Postbellum Mississippi, 1862-1870The Chinese Western Military Academies in the United States, 1902-1911; Systems: Competition, Struggle, and Transformation; ""Let the People Remember It"": Academies and the Rise of Public High Schools, 1865-1890; Betrothed to the State?: Nineteenth-Century Academies Confront the Rise of the State Normal Schools; ""Many Years before the Mayflower"": Catholic Academies and the Development of Parish High Schools in the United States, 1727-1925; Conclusion; Legacies of the Academy; Contributors ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
• Titolo autorizzato: Chartered schools
• ISBN: 1-138-97020-4; 0-203-95160-3; 1-135-31652-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453951403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in the history of education (RoutledgeFalmer (Firm))