Bending the Future to Their Will: Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy

Crocco; Davis

doi:10.5771/9780742571389

Summary

This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives of eleven women educators and social activists—Jane Addams, Mary Sheldon Barnes, Mary Ritter Beard, Rachel Davis DuBois, Hazel Hertzberg, Alice Miel, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Bessie Pierce, Lucy Maynard Salmon, Hilda Taba, and Marion Thompson Wright—concerned over the last century with issues of difference in schools and society.

This volume's reconstruction of "hidden history" reveals the importance of these women to contemporary debate about gender, pluralism, and education in a democracy. Characterized by views of education that were constructivist, customized, and transformative, their lives and ideas present an alternative model to dominant conceptualizations of education—one sensitive to the demands of pluralism within civil education long before the present-day debates about multiculturalism.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/1999
Copyright Year: 1999
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8476-9111-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7425-7138-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 292
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
2: Considering the Source: Mary Sheldon Barnes No access Pages 17 - 46
3: Lucy Maynard Salmon: Progressive Historian, Teacher, and Democrat No access Pages 47 - 72
4: “Widening the Circle”: Jane Addams, Gender, and the Re/Definition of Democracy No access Pages 73 - 92
5: Shaping Inclusive Social Education: Mary Ritter Beard and Marion Thompson Wright No access Pages 93 - 124
6: Lucy Sprague Mitchell: Teacher, Geographer, and Teacher Educator No access Pages 125 - 148
7: Bessie Louise Pierce and Her Contributions to the Social Studies No access Pages 149 - 168
8: Rachel Davis DuBois: Intercultural Education Pioneer No access Pages 169 - 184
9: Composing Her Life: Hilda Taba and Social Studies History No access Pages 185 - 206
10: Alice Miel: Progressive Advocate of Democratic Social Learning for Children No access Pages 207 - 234
11: The Search for a Coherent Curriculum Vision: Hazel Whitman Hertzberg No access Pages 235 - 252
12: Courage, Conviction, and Social Education No access Pages 253 - 276
Index No access Pages 277 - 288
About the Contributors No access Pages 289 - 292