The Common School Awakening
Religion and the Transatlantic Roots of American Public Education
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 October 2020
- ISBN 9780190085155
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 155x236x27 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English 29
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Short description:
The Common School Awakening offers a new narrative that counters previous conceptions about the rise of public schools in America. In this book, David Komline tells how Christian reformers played a defining role in the movement to systematize and professionalize American education in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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A statue of Horace Mann, erected in front of the Boston State House in 1863, declares him the "Father of the American Public School System." For over a century and a half, most narratives about early American education have taken this epithet as the truth. As Mann looms over the Boston Common, so he has also loomed over discussions of early American schooling. Other scholarship has emphasized economic factors as the main reason for the emergence of public schools. The Common School Awakening offers a new narrative about the rise of public schools in America that counters these conceptions.
In this book, David Komline explains how a broad and distinctly American religious consensus emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, allowing people from across the religious spectrum to cooperate in systematizing and professionalizing America's schools in an effort to Christianize the country. At the height of this movement, several states introduced state-sponsored teacher training colleges and concentrated government oversight of schools in offices such as the one held by Mann. Shortly thereafter, the religious consensus that had served as the foundation for this common school system disintegrated. But the system itself remained, the legacy of not just one man, but of a whole network of reformers who put into motion a transatlantic and transdenominational religious movement - the "Common School Awakening."
Komline's meticulous account will be of interest to scholars of education, religion, and reform. Moreover, its simultaneously sympathetic and analytical approach to reformers' good intentions, mixed achievements, and unintended results -- along with its graceful narrative -- makes it a quiet pleasure to read.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Joseph Lancaster, Monitorial Education, and Christianity without Sectarianism
2. "The Schoolmaster is Abroad": Early International Influences on American Education
3. Early Attempts at Revival in Massachusetts
4. The "Prussian System": Origins and Transmission
5. "The Educational Regeneration of New England": The Height of the Awakening in Massachusetts
6. The Common School Awakening in Ohio
7. An Awakening for Whom? Tensions in Ohio
Epilogue- The End of the Awakening
Acknowledgements
Archives Consulted
Notes
Index
