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Bending the Future to Their Will: Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy
Contributor(s): Crocco, Margaret Smith (Editor), Davis, O. L. (Editor), Bohan, Chara Haeussler (Contribution by)
ISBN: 0847691128     ISBN-13: 9780847691128
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $49.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 1999
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Annotation: 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 concerned over the last century with issues of difference in schools and society.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Education | History
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
Dewey: 370.115
LCCN: 99014795
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.94" W x 8.94" (0.89 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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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.