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Schooling, the Puritan imperative, and the molding of an American national identity [electronic resource] : education's "errand into the wilderness" / Douglas McKnight.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Studies in curriculum theoryPublication details: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.Description: xiii, 165 pISBN:
  • 9781410607546
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and indexes.

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.

Also available in print edition.

Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2012]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.

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