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Author Ogren, Christine A.

Title The American state normal school : an instrument of great good / Christine A. Ogren
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Introduction: "It Wasn't Much of a College" -- "To Awaken the Conscience": Establishing Teacher Education and State Normal Schools -- "Beyond Compare": Further Dimensions of Early State Normal Schools -- "The Masses and Not the Classes": A Tradition of Welcoming Nontraditional Students -- "Substantial Branches of Learning" and "A Higher Degree of Culture": Academic Studies and Intellectual Life -- Teacher Education: Breathing "The Ozone of Teaching" -- "Noble" Men and "Not Necessarily Bloomer Women": The Public Sphere, Gender Attitudes and Life Choices -- Epilogue: "Lots of Pep! Lots of Steam! -- Appendix: State Normal Schools in the United States
Summary Nearly two-hundred state colleges and regional universities throughout the country began as "normal" schools, but the institutions themselves have buried their history, and scholars have largely overlooked them. Christine A. Ogren focuses on the lives of the first wave of "nontraditional" students in higher education. In her engaging and accessible narrative, Ogren presents a groundbreaking comprehensive history and much-needed reexamination of the state normal school for all courses on the history of education, foundations, and women's higher education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Teachers colleges -- United States -- History
Educational change -- United States -- History
Higher & further education, tertiary education.
Emergency services.
EDUCATION -- Research.
Education.
Educational change
Teachers colleges
Lehrerbildung
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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