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  • John Dewey’s Laboratory School

    The Rise and Fall of a World-Famous Experiment

    by Michael Knoll ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The Laboratory School is presumably the most famous experimental school of the progressive education movement. Founded in 1894 by John Dewey and President William R. Harper, the Laboratory School existed at the University of Chicago for seven and a half years, and even after more than a century, remains a beacon of hope and inspiration for many educators. The present volume ventures to provide the ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Beyond Rhetoric

    New Perspectives on John Dewey’s Pedagogy

    by Michael Knoll ...
    While John Dewey is an icon of American education and his work object of comprehensive studies, this book ventures to fill gaps that have been neglected by previous research. In particular, it opens new perspectives on Dewey’s theory of curriculum, his concept of democratic education, his role as an administrator and the extent to which his philosophy of education coincided with the practice of ... Read more

    $90.99 USD

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  • The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century.The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, "The Culture of Narcissism Revisited." ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • God and Man at Yale

    The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

    by William F. Buckley Jr. ...
    "For God, for country, and for Yale... in that order," William F. Buckley Jr. wrote as the dedication of his monumental work—a compendium of knowledge that still resonates within the halls of the Ivy League university that tried to cover up its political and religious bias.In 1951, a twenty-five-year-old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the "extraordinarily irresponsible ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Historical Thinking

    by Sam Wineburg ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives On The P
    Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a contentious debate about what key events, nations, and people are essential for history students. Sam Wineburg says that we are asking the wrong questions. ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Social Darwinism in American Thought

    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils as well as the benefits of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Darwin Day in America

    How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science

    by John G. West ...
    At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science—especially Darwinian biology—would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment.Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as scientific experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines. In criminal ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

    by Herbert M. Kliebard ...
    Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for**the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Beyond Respectability

    The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

    by Brittney C. Cooper ...
    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Defectives in the Land

    Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

    by Douglas C. Baynton ...
    "Baynton argues that screening out disability emerged as the primary objective of U.S. immigration policy during the late 19th and early 20th century." — Journal of Social HistoryImmigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant." Defectives in the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of American Childhood

    A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child

    by Paula S. Fass ...
    How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the presentThe End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Kinship by Design

    A History of Adoption in the Modern United States

    by Ellen Herman ...
    What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans’ answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption’s history.Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred between households by a variety of unregulated private arrangements, Ellen Herman details efforts by the U.S. Children’s Bureau ... Read more

    $24.49 USD