Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Ten Days That Shook the World of Education

A Close Look at the People Who Facilitated Educational Change

Av Donald Parkerson, Jo Ann Parkerson

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Ten Days that Shook the World of Education: A Close Look at the People who Facilitated Educational Change focuses on the critical moments that changed the course of our unique educational experiment. These important incidents reveal how everyday people such as Jean Jacque Rousseau, Joseph Lancaster, Emma Willard, Horace Mann, William McGuffey, John Dewey, W.E.B. DuBois, Horace Mann Bond, Thurgood Marshall, and the kids at Parkland High School did extraordinary things and took a stand against injustice to change educational history. By centering our attention on individuals who faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles and then acted to challenge them, we offer a more personal perspective on what has been called the greatest social experiment of man.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2021-03-15
Mått: 153 x 230 x 11 mm
Vikt: 304 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 188
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781475852356

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Donald Parkerson is the Distinguished Professor of Teaching in the History Department at East Carolina University. He has published six books on the history of education with his coauthor, Jo Ann Parkerson.Jo Ann Parkerson is Professor Emeritus of Education at Methodist University. Previously she taught in the public schools and has published six books on the history of education with his coauthor, Donald Parkerson.

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This cleverly engaging collection of biographical vignettes is a provocative text for lower-level undergraduate courses on the social foundations of education. Written in a highly accessible and direct style, this volume captures the popular impulse to regard history as the mark of particular dates and events. The contemporary relevance of its historical subjects is never far from the surface. Most important, the 10 subjects are wisely chosen and cover a substantial range, from key educational and social theorists (e.g., Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Horace Mann) to school builders and reformers (e.g., Joseph Lancaster, Emma Willard, and William McGuffey) to social activists (e.g., Thurgood Marshall and “the kids” of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida). The authors tell the story of how these “everyday people did extraordinary things to challenge injustice and facilitate educational change” (p. xi). Of course, in some instances their historical interpretation is contentious—e.g., many readers will take exception to seeing Lancaster’s schools as a boon to the working poor or McGuffey's Readers as expressing unimpeachable values. However, this contentiousness is precisely what will provoke and engage readers. Recommended. General readers and lower-division undergraduates.

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