"Republican Machines" or Pestalozzian Bildung? Two Visions of Moral Education in the Early Republic

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ID8894851
AuthorsEve Kornfeld (corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume20
Issue2
Pages157-172
Publication date1989-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cras-020-02-01
OpenAlexW2014982376
LanguageEN
References cited23

In recent years, a vigorous historiographical debate has swirled around the basic vision and goals of antebellum American educational reformers. Revisionist histories have strongly challenged traditional portraits of democratic educational missionaries spreading the American dream; recent revisions have focussed instead upon the goals of social control and cultural hegemony implicit in middle-class reformers' attempts to save poor children from themselves and their parents. To some historians, the moral crusades of the mid-nineteenth century seem to indict rather than to ennoble the crusaders. This paper attempts to shed a little more light on this controversy, by lengthening the historical perspective and illuminating the shades and contrasts within earlier American visions of moral education1

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Bildung · Democracy · Dream · Epistemology · Hegemony · Historiography · Middle class · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Portrait · Sociology · Vision · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Anthropology · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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