Education and the culture of print in modern America
By: edited by Adam R. Nelson and John L. Rudolph
Series: Print culture history in modern America; Print culture history in modern America
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780299236144; 9780299236137
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Education, print culture, and the negotiation of meaning in modern America / Adam R. Nelson; title: Which truth, what fiction? : librarians' book recommendations for children, 1876-1890 / Kate McDowell; title: A "Colored Authors Collection" to exhibit to the world and educate a race / Michael Benjamin; title: Merry's flock : making something out of educational reform in the early twentieth century / Ryan K. Anderson; title: Printed presence : twentieth-century Catholic print culture for youngsters in the United States / Robert A. Orsi; title: Unschooled but not uneducated : print, public speaking, and the networks of informal working-class education, 1900-1940 / Frank Tobias Higbie; title: "Write as you fight" : the pedagogical agenda of the Working woman, 1929-1935 / Jane Greer; title: "A gentleman is no sissy" : reading, work, and citizenship in the Civilian Conservation Corps / Catherine Turner; title: State regulation of the textbook industry / Adam R. Shapiro; title: Teaching reading with television : constructing closed captioning using the rhetoric of literacy / Greg Downey; title: Conclusion: Education, work, and the culture of print : directions for future research / James P. Danky.