{"product_id":"the-american-school-9781138502925","title":"The American School","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis current, comprehensive history of American education is designed to stimulate critical analysis and critical thinking by offering alternative interpretations of each historical period. In his signature straight-forward, concise style, Joel Spring provides a variety of interpretations of American schooling, from conservative to leftist, in order to spark the readerâs own critical thinking about history and schools. This tenth edition follows the history of American education from the seventeenth century to the integration into global capitalism of the twenty-first century to the tumultuous current political landscape. In particular, the updates focus on tracing the direct religious links between the colonial Puritans and the current-day Trump administration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapters 1 and 2 have been rewritten to take a closer look at religious traditions in American schools, leading up to the educational ideas of the current U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn updated Chapter 15 further links traditional religious fundamentalist ideas and the twentieth century free market arguments of the Chicago school of economists to President Trumpâs administration and the influence of the Alt-Right.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Joel Spring’s \u003ci\u003eThe American School \u003c\/i\u003epoints up the fact that, historically, schools have been used as means to gain ideological control over perspective and as means to empower and liberate, both wrapped in democratic shibboleths of “freedom,” “equality,” and “justice.” Furthermore, Spring gives body to the idea that public schooling in the United States is an inherently political undertaking shaped by the various struggles over what democratic justice should mean and how this meaning should be cultivated in the characters who will be entrusted with its realization and direction.'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Randy Hewitt, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Central Florida.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Time Lines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1 Thinking Critically about History \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterpreting School History: From the Right to the Left \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePurposes of Educational History and Its Effect on Public Images and Emotions Regarding Schools \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThemes in American Educational History \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobalization Framework \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligious Debates in U.S. Schools from the Colonial Era to the Present\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchools and the Culture Wars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchools as Managers of Public Thought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRacial and Ethnic Conflict as a Theme in School History \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Role in Educational History of Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobalization: Consumer and Environmental Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2 Globalization and Religion in Colonial Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducation and Culture in Colonial Society \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Role of Education in Colonial Society \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorical Interpretations of Colonial Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthority and Social Status in Colonial Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColonialism and Educational Policy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage and Cultural Conflict \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative Americans: Education as Cultural Imperialism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnslaved Africans: Atlantic Creoles \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnslaved Africans: The Plantation System \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Idea of Secular Education: Freedom of Thought and the Establishment of Academies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin and Education as Social Mobility \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Family and the Child \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3 Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Moral Reform in the New Republic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorld Culture Theorists \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Problem of Cultural Diversity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligion and Liberty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoah Webster: Nationalism and the Creation of a Dominant Culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Jefferson: A Natural Aristocracy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoral Reform and Faculty Psychology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcepts of Childhood: Protected, Working, Poor, Rural, and Enslaved \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharity Schools, the Lancasterian System, and Prisons \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstitutional Change and the American College \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic versus Private Schools \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Continuing Issues in American Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4 The Ideology and Politics of the Common School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree Distinctive Features of the Common School Movement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ideology of the Common School Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorkingmen and the Struggle for a Republican Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow Much Government Involvement in Schools? The Whigs and the Democrats \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Birth of the High School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Continuing Debate about the Common School Ideal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5 The Common School and the Threat of Cultural Pluralism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Increasing Multicultural Population of the United States \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrish Catholics: A Threat to Anglo-American Schools and Culture \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlavery and Freedom in the North: African Americans and Schools in the New Republic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative Americans \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 6 Organizing the American School: Teachers and Bureaucracy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American Teacher \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevolution in Teaching Methods: Object Learning \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of Bureaucracy: A Global Model \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Age-Graded Classroom \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey’s Readers and the Spirit of Capitalism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 7 Multiculturalism and the Failure of the Common School Ideal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMexican Americans: Race and Citizenship \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAsian Americans: Exclusion and Segregation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative American Citizenship \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducational Racism and Deculturalization \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCitizenship for African Americans \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssues Regarding Puerto Rican Citizenship \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePuerto Rican American Educational Issues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Setting the Stage for the Great Civil Rights Movement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 8 Global Migration and the Growth of the Welfare Function of Schools \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImmigration from Southern and Eastern Europe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Kindergarten Movement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHome Economics: Education of the New Consumer Woman \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchool Cafeterias, the American Cuisine, and Processed Foods \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Play Movement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial Centers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Culture Wars \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResisting Segregation: African Americans \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Second Crusade for Black Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResisting Segregation: Mexican Americans \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative American Boarding Schools \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResisting Discrimination: Asian Americans \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducational Resistance in Puerto Rico \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Public Schooling as America’s Welfare Institution \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 9 Human Capital: High School, Junior High School, and Vocational Guidance and Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe High School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVocational Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJunior High School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdapting the Classroom to the Workplace: Lesson Plans \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdapting the Classroom to the Workplace: Progressivism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdapting the Classroom to the Workplace: Stimulus–Response \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClassroom Management as Preparation for Factory Life \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorical Interpretations: Public Benefit or Corporate Greed? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Meaning of Equality of Opportunity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Scientific School Management: Testing, Immigrants, and Experts \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScientifically Managed Schools: Meritocracy and Reducing Public Control \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessionalizing Educational Administration \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeasurement, Democracy, and the Superiority of Anglo-Americans \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClosing the Door to Immigrants: The 1924 Immigration Act \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Backward\" Children and Special Classrooms \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEugenics and the Age of Sterilization \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe University and Meritocracy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The Politics of Knowledge: Teachers’ Unions, the American Legion, and the American Way \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeachers versus Administrators: The American Federation of Teachers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rise of the National Education Association \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Political Changes of the Depression Years \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Ideological Management: The American Legion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTextbook Censorship and the Teaching of Evolution \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelling the \"American Way\" in Schools and on Billboards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePropaganda and Free Speech in the Schools\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRugg and Advertising \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Schools, Media, and Popular Culture: Influencing the Minds of Children and Teenagers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCensorship of Movies as a Form of Public Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducators and the Movies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Production Code: Movies as Educators \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShould Commercial Radio or Educators Determine National Culture? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreating the Superhero for Children’s Radio \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eControlling the Influence of Comic Books \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducating Children as Consumers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Creation of Teenage Markets \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren and Youth from the 1950s to the Twenty-First Century \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 American Schools and Global Politics: The Cold War and Poverty \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYouth Unemployment: Universal Military Service and the GI Bill \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Educational Testing Service \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cold War and Purging the Schools of Communists \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Schools: Weakest Link to Global Victory? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal Imperatives: The National Defense Education Act \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchools and the War on Poverty \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSesame Street and Educational Television \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 The Fruits of Globalization: Civil Rights, Global Migration, and Multicultural Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnding School Segregation of National Minorities \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative Americans and Indigenous Educational Rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAsian Americans: Educating the \"Model Minority\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHispanic\/Latino Americans \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilingual Education: The Culture Wars Continued \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Immigration Act of 1965 and the New American Population \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMulticultural Education and the Culture Wars \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchools and the International Women’s Movement \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren with Special Needs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Coloring of Textbook Town \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberating the Textbook Town Housewife for More Consumption \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Cold War and Civil Rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 \u003ci\u003eGlobalization, Religion, Free Markets, and Human Capital: From Nixon to Trump\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFree Markets and Human Capital: School Choice and the Role of Schools in Economic Growth and Ending Poverty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchool Prayer and Bible Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Coalition, School Prayer and School Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Coalition: Religious Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo Child Left Behind, Testing and School Prayer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo Child Left Behind And Religious Conservatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe End of The Common School: Choice, Privatization, and Charter Schools\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrump Administration: Free Markets, Choice, and Privatization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducating for the Consumer Economy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal Crisis and the Demise of Environmental Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: From Horace Mann To Donald Trump\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019495833943,"sku":"9781138502925","price":46.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138502925.jpg?v=1750780440","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-american-school-9781138502925","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}