Schooling the New South deftly combines social and political history, gender studies, and African American history into a story of educational reform. James Leloudis recreates North Carolina's classrooms as they existed at the turn of the century and explores the wide-ranging social and psychological implications of the transition from old-fashioned common schools to modern graded schools. He argues that this critical change in methods of instruction both reflected and guided the transformation of the American South. According to Leloudis, architects of the New South embraced the public school as an institution capable of remodeling their world according to the principles of free labor and market exchange. By altering habits of learning, they hoped to instill in students a vision of life that valued individual ambition and enterprise above the familiar relations of family, church, and community. Their efforts eventually created both a social and a pedagogical revolution, says Leloudis. Public schools became what they are today--the primary institution responsible for the socialization of children and therefore the principal battleground for society's conflicts over race, class, and gender.
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Linking educational history to social change, this book shows how the transition from common schools to graded institutions (1880-1920) both reflected and guided the transformation of the American South.
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- Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 2, D-G by William S. (ed.) Powell on 10 pages
- The Emergence of the American University by Laurence R. Veysey on 5 pages
- Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz on 5 pages
- POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SLAVERY by Eugene D. Genovese in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s by Abbott Gleason in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina by Pamela Grundy in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Marion Butler and American Populism by James Logan (1959- ) Hunt in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Essays in Twentieth-Century Southern Education: Exceptionalism and Its Limits (Studies in the History of Education) by Wayne Urban on page 39, page 40, and page 256
- Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867 by Patricia C. Click in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia by J. Douglas Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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