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Small wonder [[electronic resource] ] : the little red schoolhouse in history and memory / / Jonathan Zimmerman



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Autore: Zimmerman Jonathan <1961-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Small wonder [[electronic resource] ] : the little red schoolhouse in history and memory / / Jonathan Zimmerman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 371.6/20973
Soggetto topico: School buildings - Social aspects - United States - History
Note generali: Series from jacket.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One History -- Part two Memory -- Conclusion Dear Old Golden Rule Days? -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The little red schoolhouse has all but disappeared in the United States, but its importance in national memory remains unshakable. This engaging book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive generations of Americans have remembered-and just as often misremembered-this powerful national icon. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from firsthand accounts to poems, songs, and films, Jonathan Zimmerman traces the evolution of attitudes toward the little red schoolhouse from the late nineteenth century to the present day. At times it was celebrated as a symbol of lost rural virtues or America's democratic heritage; at others it was denounced as the epitome of inefficiency and substandard academics. And because the one-room school has been a useful emblem for liberal, conservative, and other agendas, the truth of its history has sometimes been stretched. Yet the idyllic image of the schoolhouse still unites Americans. For more than a century, it has embodied the nation's best aspirations and-especially-its continuing faith in education itself.
Titolo autorizzato: Small wonder  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35181-8
9786612351815
0-300-15627-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780798903321
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Serie: Icons of America.