Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school. The Once and Future School argues that to make sense of the current trials of secondary educational system and to maintain any sense of direction and vision for its future, we need a clear understanding of its path in the past and of its setting in a multi-national world. From their beginnings in colonial America to the present day, Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements…mehr
Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school. The Once and Future School argues that to make sense of the current trials of secondary educational system and to maintain any sense of direction and vision for its future, we need a clear understanding of its path in the past and of its setting in a multi-national world. From their beginnings in colonial America to the present day, Jurgen Herbst traces the debates, discussions, pronouncements and reports through which Americans have sought to hammer out and clarify their conceptions of the goals and purposes of education beyond the common school.
Jurgen Herbst is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and of History at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has served as president of the American History of Education Society and of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. His most recent book is And Sadly Teach, a history of teacher education in the United States.
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Acknowledgments Preface 1 The Origins of Secondary Education 2 Grammar Schools Colleges and Academies in Early America The Nineteenth-Century Liberal Arts College 4 The People's College 5 State Systems of Secondary Education 6 Midwestern Democracy 7 Between Town and Gown: The High School in Wisconsin 8 Growing Pains 9 The Committee of Ten 10 From Manual to Vocational Education 11 The Legacy of Vocational Education 12 Toward the Comprehensive High School 13 The High School Under Siege 14 The High School in Search of Itself 15 End of an Era 16 From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century Notes Index
Acknowledgments Preface 1 The Origins of Secondary Education 2 Grammar Schools Colleges and Academies in Early America The Nineteenth-Century Liberal Arts College 4 The People's College 5 State Systems of Secondary Education 6 Midwestern Democracy 7 Between Town and Gown: The High School in Wisconsin 8 Growing Pains 9 The Committee of Ten 10 From Manual to Vocational Education 11 The Legacy of Vocational Education 12 Toward the Comprehensive High School 13 The High School Under Siege 14 The High School in Search of Itself 15 End of an Era 16 From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century Notes Index
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