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Bending the Future to Their Will
. Ed(S): Crocco, Margaret Smith; Davis, O. L., Jr.
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Description for Bending the Future to Their Will
Paperback. This collective biography records the contributions of 11 women educators and social activists concerned with issues of difference in schools and society during the last 100 years. It reveals their importance to contemporary debates about gender, pluralism and education in a democracy. Editor(s): Crocco, Margaret Smith; Davis, O. L., Jr. Num Pages: 304 pages, ports. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ1; JHBA; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847691128
SKU
V9780847691128
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About . Ed(S): Crocco, Margaret Smith; Davis, O. L., Jr.
Margaret Smith Crocco is associate professor of social studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. O. L. Davis, Jr. is professor of curriculum and instruction in the School of Education at the University of Texas, Austin.
Reviews for Bending the Future to Their Will
Bending the Future to their Will provides an invaluable account of a group of women educators who were deeply concerned with questions of democracy and citizenship. In recovering the lives of these women from historical obscurity, this collection not only restores these women to their rightful place, it challenges us to rethink the accepted history of democratic educational thought in ... Read more