Class and reform
Subtitle: school and society in Chicago, 1880-1930
By: David John Hogan.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Education -- Political aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Case studies; Politics and education -- History -- Case studies; Child welfare -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Case studies; Vocational education -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Case studies; Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- To 1950
Description: Focuses on Progressive education reform in Chicago between 1880 and 1920 --child labor and compulsory education laws, juvenile courts, kindergartens, plalyagrounds, child-centered pedagogy, vocational education and guidance, IQ testing, junior high schools, and school governance. Examines the social and intellectual origins of Progressive educational reform: its guiding principles, its relationship to Progressive reform generally, the response of working-class individuals and organizations to previous forms of education, and the gradual incorporation of public education into the market revolution of the last century.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [237]-317.
Includes index.