Douglas McKnight

Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Education's "Errand Into the Wilderness"

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the relationship between the purposes of education and the notion of an American identity and morality rooted in the Puritan concept of an "errand into the wilderness."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135631062
• Artikelnr.: 38253182

Autorenporträt

Douglas McKnight

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. The Puritan Gift: The Historical Condition of Writing
the Symbolic Narrative of America. Puritan Moral Symbols: Errand Into the
Wilderness and the Jeremiad Ritual. Finding Order and Balance Between Faith
and Reason Through Educational Maps. Inheriting the Errand: Hopes and Fears
of the Anglo-Protestant Middle Class. The New Discourses of Education:
Reason to Preserve the Moral Imperative. Public Education as Moral
Transcendence: William Torrey Harris and the Errand Impulse. Moral Crisis
of America and Its Schools: Return of the Jeremiad Ritual. Afterword.