Schooling, the Puritan imperative, and the molding of an American national identity education's "errand into the wilderness" - McKnight, Douglas; T&F eBooks (Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003)
1. The Puritan gift : the historical condition of writing the symbolic narrative of America -- 2. Puritan moral symbols : errand into the wilderness and the Jeremiad ritual -- 3. Finding order and balance between faith and reason through educational maps -- 4. Inheriting the errand : hopes and fears of the Anglo-Protestant middle class -- 5. The new discourses of education : "reason" to preserve the moral imperative -- 6. Public education as moral transcendence : William Torrey Harris and the errand impulse -- 7. Moral crisis of America and its schools : return of the Jeremiad ritual.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and indexes.
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Keywords: Moral education -- United States; Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States; National characteristics, American; Electronic books