Progressivism's Aesthetic Education The Bildungsroman and the American School, 1890-1920 /

• Main Author: Raber, Jesse (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Education-History.; Intellectual life-History.; Civilization-History.; America-Literatures.; Pragmatism.; US History.; History of Education.; Intellectual Studies.; Cultural History.; North American Literature.

During the Progressive Era in the United States, as teaching became professionalized and compulsory attendance laws were passed, the public school emerged as a cultural authority. What did accepting this authority mean for Americans' conception of self-government and their freedom of thought? A...