American Educational Thought

Essays from 1640-1940

Andrew J. Milson, Chara Haeussler Bohan, Perry L. Glanzer, Andrew J. Milson, Chara Haeussler Bohan, Perry L. Glanzer, J. Wesley Null

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781607523642
  9781607523659
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607523666
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

American Educational Thought: Essays from 1640-1940 contains primary source readings from the mid 1600s to 1940. The goal of the work is to provide teachers, contemporary scholars of education, and policymakers with the most significant arguments made on the subject of American education during this time period. In this second edition of the book, the editors have included numerous new works that open up new possibilities for discussion, represent more wide-ranging viewpoints, and provide even richer context for making sense of American educational thought.

Table of contents

• Cover
• American Educational Thought
• American Educational Thought
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction to the Second Edition, 2010
• Introduction to the First Edition, 2004
• Photo Sources
• 1: Spiritual Milk for American Babes, Drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments for their Soul’s Nourishment
• 2: Excerpts from Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims
• 3: An Essay Upon the Good Education of Children (An Essay Upon Well-Taught Children; And Upon an Able and Faithful Teacher of Them)
• 4: Proposals Relating to the Youth in Pensilvania
• 5: Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson
• 6: Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush
• 7: On Education of Youth in America
• 8: An Address to the Public: Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education
• 9: The Character of Young Ladies
• 10: Selected Writings of Catharine Beecher
• 11: Selected Writings of Horace Mann
• 12: Report of the Committee on Education of the House of Representatives
• 13: The Catholic Response to Protestantism in Public Schools
• 14: The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls
• 15: Common Schools
• 16: Education
• 17: Secularized Education
• 18: Selected Writings of William Torrey Harris
• Compulsory Education in Relation to Crime and Social Morals, 1885
• The Philosophy of Education, 1893
• 19: Report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies
• 20: The Child (From Talks on Pedagogics)
• 21: The Function of Education in Democratic Society
• 22: Excerpts from Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals
• 23: Selected Writings of John Dewey
• 24: The Ideal School as Based on Child Study
• 25: Excerpt from Up From Slavery
• 26: Selected Writings of W.E.B. DuBois
• 27: Why Teachers Should Organize
• 28: The Certification of Teachers: A Consideration of Present Conditions with Suggestions as to Future Improvement
• 29: Selected Writings of Jane Addams
• 30: The Contribution of Psychology to Education
• 31: Equal Pay for Equal Work
• 32: Report of the Commission of the Reorganization of Secondary Education
• 33: The Project Method
• 34: Selected Writings of Mary McLeod Bethune
• 35: Excerpt from Dare the School Build a New Social Order?
• 36: Selected Writings of William C. Bagley
• 37: Selection from Progressive Education at the Crossroads
• 38: Prejudice the Garden Toward Roses?
• Sources
• About the Editors