| Description |
ix, 719 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Conditions that caused the Northern Revolt and Reformation -- The Northern Response to the Italian Renaissance -- Protestant educational reformers -- Humanism and church and school reform -- Educational progress during the second half of the 16th century -- Baconian realism, Cartesianism, and Calvinism -- Comenius, prophet of modern principles and methods -- Educational progress in the first half of the 17th century -- German Pietism and the new Christian education -- Nonconformist education and charity school movements -- Locke and the philosophy of empiricism -- The Enlightenment and physiocracy -- Rousseau: the Copernicus of modern civilization -- Transition from church to state control of education -- The transition movement in America -- The rebirth and reinstatement of idealism -- Pestalozzi and the Common School Movement -- Herbart and the science of education -- Froebel and education by organismic evolution -- Great national school systems -- Building the American school system -- Educational theory and problems at the end of the 19th century -- G. Stanley Hall and genetic philosophy -- John Dewey's Instrumentalism -- Educational progress in the twentieth century |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical footnotes and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical footnotes |
| Subject |
Education -- History.
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Education -- Philosophy -- History.
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Education -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
52011504 |
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