Civic and moral learning in America / / edited by Donald Warren and John J. Patrick

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.11/40973
• Soggetto topico: Moral education - United States; Character - Study and teaching (Elementary) - United States; Civics - Study and teaching - United States
• Altri autori: WarrenDonald R. <1933-> PatrickJohn J. <1935->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Civic and Moral Learning in America -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Civic and Moral Learning in Question -- 1 The Politics of Civic and Moral Education -- 2 Can Civic and Moral Education Be Distinguished? -- 3 Cato's Resolve and the Revolutionary Spirit: Political Education, Civic Action, and the Democratic-Republican Societies of the 1790s -- 4 Moral Educations on the Alaskan Frontier, 1794-1917 -- 5 Social Capital and the Common Schools -- 6 Between Hogs and Horse-Trots: Searching for Civic Learning in 1850s Indiana -- 7 Widening the Circle: African American Perspectives on Moral and Civic Learning -- 8 Land, Law, and Education: The Troubled History of Indian Citizenship, 1871-1924 -- 9 "Let Virtue Be Thy Guide, and Truth Thy Beacon-Light": Moral and Civic Transformation in Indianapolis's Public Schools -- 10 Berkeley Women Economists, Public Policy, and Civic Sensibility -- 11 Character and the Clinic: The Shift from Character to Personality in American Character Education, 1930-1940 -- 12 Sex, Drugs, and Right 'N' Wrong: Or, The Passion of Joycelyn Elders, M.D. -- 13 Monuments and Morals: The Nationalization of Civic Instruction -- Afterword -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: From its formative years to the present, advocates of various persuasions have written and spoken about the country's need for moral and civic education. Responding in part to challenges posed by B. Edward McClellan, this book offers research findings on the ideas, people, and contexts that have influenced the acquisition of moral and civic learning in the America.
• Titolo autorizzato: Civic and moral learning in America
• ISBN: 1-349-53462-5; 1-281-36607-2; 9786611366070; 1-4039-8472-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811075303321
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