Bending the Future to Their Will

Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy

Margaret Smith Crocco, O. L. Davis Jr.

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 1999
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780742571389
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives of eleven women educators and social activists_Jane Addams, Mary Sheldon Barnes, Mary Ritter Beard, Rachel Davis DuBois, Hazel Hertzberg, Alice Miel, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Bessie Pierce, Lucy Maynard Salmon, Hilda Taba, and Marion Thompson Wright_concerned over the last century with issues of difference in schools and society. This volume's reconstruction of 'hidden history' reveals the importance of these women to contemporary debate about gender, pluralism, and education in a democracy. Characterized by views of education that were constructivist, customized, and transformative, their lives and ideas present an alternative model to dominant conceptualizations of education_one sensitive to the demands of pluralism within civil education long before the present-day debates about multiculturalism.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Considering the Source: Mary Sheldon Barnes
• 3 Lucy Maynard Salmon: Progressive Historian, Teacher, and Democrat
• 4 “Widening the Circle”: Jane Addams, Gender, and the Re/Definition of Democracy
• 5 Shaping Inclusive Education: Mary Ritter Beard and Marion Thompson Wright
• 6 Lucy Sprague Mitchell: Teacher, Geographer, and Teacher Educator
• 7 Bessie Louise Pierce and Her Contributions to the Social Studies
• 8 Rachel Davis DuBois: Intercultural Education Pioneer
• 9 Composing Her Life: Hilda Taba and Social Studies History
• 10 Alice Miel: Progressive Advocate of Democratic Social Learning for Children
• 11 The Search for a Coherent Curriculum Vision: Hazel Whitman Hertzberg
• 12 Courage, Conviction, and Social Education
• About the Contributors