A history of education in american culture.

New York : Henry Holt and company, 1955.

English

X, 628 pages; 24 cm.

Part I. Colonial foundations of american education (1600 - 1779). Chapter 1. Old world culture in new setting. Chapter 2. The colonial mind. Chapter 3. Crosscurrents in educational thought. Chapter 4. Prevailing patterns of education. The development of a distinctive american education (1779 -1865). Chapter 5. The growth of the American Republic. Chapter 6. Intellectual outlooks in the new nation. Chapter 7. Conflicting conceptions of education. Chapter 8. Characteristic educational practices. Part 3. The expansion od american education (1865 -1918). Chapter 9. The emergence of industrial america. Chapter 10. Reshaping the american mind. Chapter 11. Conflicting currents of educational thought. Chapter 12. Typical patterns of education. Part 4. American education in the contemporary world (1918 - Mind- Century). Chapter 13. The increasing tempo of social change. Chapter 14. Intellectual stresses and strains. Chapter 15. The clash of educational ideas. Chapter 16. The balance sheet of American education.