School(house) Design and Curriculum in Nineteenth Century America

School(house) Design and Curriculum in Nineteenth Century America
Author: Joseph da Silva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319785869

This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth century American school architecture and curriculum. While other studies have queried the intersections of school architecture and curriculum, they approach them without consideration for the ways in which their relationships are culturally formative—or how they reproduce or resist extant inequities in the United States. Da Silva addresses this gap in the school design archive with a cross-disciplinary approach, taking to task the cultural consequences of the relationship between these two primary elements of teaching and learning in a ‘hotspot’ of American education—the nineteenth century. Providing a historical and theoretical framework for practitioners and scholars in evaluating the politics of modern American school design, the book holds a mirror to the oft-criticized state of American education today.

The American One-Room Schoolhouse

The American One-Room Schoolhouse
Author: Henry J. Kauffman
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 1883294541

Not only are the memories of attending a one-room school interesting, but the history of the beginning of one-room schools and the 19th-century idealism of our nation introduces one to how this part of our heritage impacted us as a nation today. Chapters feature the Amish one-room schoolhouse, the schoolteacher, school books, teaching apparatus, desks and chairs, and rules and regulations. (70pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2005 reprint of 1997 ed.)

Small Wonder

Small Wonder
Author: Jonathan Zimmerman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-07-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0300156278

This engaging book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive generations of Americans have remembered--and just as often misremembered--this powerful national icon.

An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse

An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse
Author: Ellen Winner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2022
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0190061286

"In 1982 I travelled to northern Italy to observe the preschools in the city of Reggio Emilia. I made more visits over the years, including my last visit in 2020. I wanted to understand the teaching methods that allowed typical children to make art that looked so much more advanced that that seen in American preschools. The first seeds of this book were planted as I observed the art that Reggio children were able to create"--

Daughters of the State

Daughters of the State
Author: Barbara M. Brenzel
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1985-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780262521048

A rich and fascinating study of education, social reform, and women's history,Daughters of the State explores the lives of young girls who came to the State Industrial School forGirls in Lancaster, Massachusetts during its first fifty years.Brenzel skillfully integrates thecomplex lines of nineteenth-century social thought and policies formed around issues of work, sexroles, schooling, and sexuality that have carried through to this century. In the school'shandwritten case histories and legislative reports, she uncovers institutional mores and biasestoward the young and the poor and especially toward women. Brenzel also reveals the plight of theparents who were forced by their circumstances to condemn their children to such institutions in thehope of improving their futures.Barbara Brenzel is Assistant Professor of Education and DepartmentChair at Wellesley College. Daughters of the State is an MIT-Harvard joint Center for Urban StudiesBook.

The Little Red Schoolhouse

The Little Red Schoolhouse
Author: Eric Sloane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1972
Genre: Education
ISBN:

School days, like our everydays, have changed. But the obsolete world of the one-room schoolhouse filled with rough-hewn desks still lingers. The echoes of yesteryear live on in the old-fashioned classrooms that still stand today. Harkening back to a time when the three Rs actually stood for reading, 'riting, and religion, Eric Sloane's sketchbook explores the history and spirit of early American schools. In this vivid slice of Americana, he tells of when paper was a precious commodity, explains the origins of words such as "blackboard" and "moonlighting," and offers evocative illustrations of New England's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century schoolhouses and their delightfully modest interiors. Filled with insight, warmth, and honest nostalgia, "The Little Red Schoolhouse" is an enchanting journey into a bygone past.