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Titre(s) : The Founding Fathers, education, and "The Great Contest" [Texte imprimé] : the American philosophical society prize of 1797 / edited by Benjamin Justice
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Description matérielle : xii, 279 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Historical studies in education
Lien à la collection : Historical studies in education (Print)
Comprend : Machine generated contents note: ; Foreword; Carl F. Kaestle ; 1. Introduction;
Benjamin Justice ; PART I: METHODS ; 2. The Mysterious No. 3; Lisa Green ; 3. 'Raked
from the Rubbish': Stylometric Authorship Attribution and the 1795 American Philosophical
Society Education Contest; Eric Strome ; PART II: MEANINGS ; 4. False Start: The
Failure of an Early "Race to the Top"; Campbell Scribner ; 5. "Encouraging Useful
Knowledge" in the Early Republic : The Roles of State Governments and Voluntary Organizations;
Nancy Beadie ; 6. Race and Schooling in Early Republican Philadelphia; Hilary Moss
; 7. Gender and Citizenship in Educational Plans in the New Republic; Margaret Nash
; 8. The Significance of the 'French School' in Early National Female Education; Kim
Tolley ; 9. The Place of Religion in Early National School Plans; Benjamin Justice
; 10. The Perceived Dangers of Study Abroad, 1780-1800: Nationalism, Internationalism,
and the Origins of the American University; Adam R. Nelson ; PART III: MATERIALS
; Essays from the American Philosophical Society Education Contest, 1795-1797 ; Introduction
to the Essays: Reading the Late Eightenth Century in the Early Twenty-First; Benjamin
Justice ; Remarks on Education; Samuel Harrison Smith ; An Essay on the Best System
of Liberal Education; Samuel Knox ; Review of Essay No. 3 ; On Education and Public
Schools; Hiram ; A Plan for the Education of Youth; Academicus ; Concerning Education
in Public Schools; Hand ; Freedom, Concerning Education in Pennsylvania; Freedom.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In 1795, the nation's leading research institution offered a prize for the best essay
on a system of public education for the United States. Over the next two years, the
proposals they received ranged from the ridiculous, to the provocative, to the eerily
familiar. This book revisits that unique moment in American history, when the founding
fathers first opened the enduring debate on how best to educate the American citizenry.
In ten essays, leading historians use the American Philosophical Society's education
prize as a starting point for broader explorations of critical themes: gender, race,
religion, public versus private, centralization versus localism, voluntary associations,
higher education, and research methods. This book also publishes, for the first time,
all of the original contest essays"--
Sujet(s) : Éducation -- États-Unis -- 18e siècle
Écoles publiques -- États-Unis -- 18e siècle
American philosophical society -- Éducation
American philosophical society -- Prix et récompenses -- 18e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781137271013 (hardback). - ISBN 1137271019 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436483564
Notice n° :
FRBNF43648356
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