Jane Mccamant
Biographic Data
| ID | 349740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Mccamant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccamant |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAMANT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7598-8162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Other Means of Grace
This paper assesses the success of the loan libraries of the American Seamen’s Friend Society (ASFS). It contains an analysis of 20 reports submitted to the ASFS by shipboard librarians between 1865 and 1867. Analysis of the reports themselves and how they were represented in ASFS publications reveals the paradoxical relationship the ASFS had with stereotypes of seamen. In the ASFS’s images of sailors and in their administration of the loan libra…
Catholic Civics Education in the Early Cold War
In the late 1940s and 1950s American Catholic educators faced the dilemma of how to transmit Catholic faith and culture to the next generation while also reassuring their non-Catholic neighbors that they were fully American in lifestyle and loyalties. This article examines one response to that dilemma: the convergence of public and Catholic school civics curricula through the widespread use of experiential pedagogy in Catholic civics education. U…
Some Vital Religion
The history of American public education has generally been considered as a steady transition from religious and sectarian to secular and pluralist, with the role of science in education increasing as the role of religion decreased. This article examines a conception of the role of religion in education that does not fit this narrative, the 'social religion' of theorists of moral and character education in the 1920s. Relying on ideas of religious…
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Catholic Civics Education in the Early Cold War
In the late 1940s and 1950s American Catholic educators faced the dilemma of how to transmit Catholic faith and culture to the next generation while also reassuring their non-Catholic neighbors that they were fully American in lifestyle and loyalties. This article examines one response to that dilemma: the convergence of public and Catholic school civics curricula through the widespread use of experiential pedagogy in Catholic civics education. U…
Some Vital Religion
The history of American public education has generally been considered as a steady transition from religious and sectarian to secular and pluralist, with the role of science in education increasing as the role of religion decreased. This article examines a conception of the role of religion in education that does not fit this narrative, the 'social religion' of theorists of moral and character education in the 1920s. Relying on ideas of religious…
Other Means of Grace
This paper assesses the success of the loan libraries of the American Seamen’s Friend Society (ASFS). It contains an analysis of 20 reports submitted to the ASFS by shipboard librarians between 1865 and 1867. Analysis of the reports themselves and how they were represented in ASFS publications reveals the paradoxical relationship the ASFS had with stereotypes of seamen. In the ASFS’s images of sailors and in their administration of the loan libra…
Catholicism and Religious Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Religious education (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Character (mathematics) (1 work)