Abraham Lincoln's intellectual development, 1809-1837
By: Vito N. Silvestri and Alfred P. Lairo
Contributors: Lairo, Alfred P.
Publisher: Wasteland Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Shelbyville, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781600479199
Subjects: Psychology; Psychology of Learning; Psychologie de l'apprentissage
Description: This well written work leads us through the early life of Abraham Lincoln as he cultivated his education while coming of age struggling to make a life on the frontier. It shows the layered and mostly unstructured learning experiences he used to rise above his meager circumstance and become one of the greatest leaders the world has every known.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Initiating self-learning during his growing-up years, Kentucky and Indiana, 1809-1830. Chapter one: Frontier life dispositions; title: Chapter two: A fundamental change of environment; title: Chapter three: The death of Nancy Hanks Lincoln; title: Chapter four: The stabilizing influence of Sarah Bush Lincoln; title: Chapter five: Verbalness and the Lincoln family: Lincoln gains oral and written literacy; title: Chapter six: Reading, writing and ciphering in Kentucky; title: Chapter seven: Reading and studying: maintaining the process of self-learning; title: Chapter eight: Becoming a self-learner and becoming a hired hand; title: Chapter nine: Two major events at nineteen: death of Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and a trip to New Orleans; title: Chapter ten: Facing another frontier; title: Part II: Refining his self-learning to establish a career: Illinois, 1831-1837. Chapter eleven: Abe Lincoln at twenty-one: self-learning and life experiences: physical, intellectual and emotional; title: Chapter twelve: From the mind to the expression to others: developing his oral persona; title: Chapter thirteen: From the mind to expression to others: developing his written persona; title: Chapter fourteen: Reading becomes Lincoln's window to the world at twenty-one; title: Chapter fifteen: Transferring self-learning to Illinois: the final influence; title: Chapter sixteen: Love and death: Lincoln and Ann Rutledge; title: Chapter seventeen: Three mentors: Bowling Green, Jack Kelso and Mentor Graham; title: Chapter eighteen: Governance and Lincoln: his experiences from Pigeon Creek to New Salem; title: Part III: Lincoln presents himself to the public. Chapter nineteen: Lincoln becomes a politician; title: Chapter twenty: Lincoln's emergence as a storyteller; title: Chapter twenty-one: Becoming a lawyer and moving to Springfield.