Progressivism's aesthetic education : the bildungsroman and the American school, 1890--1920 /: the bildungsroman and the American school, 1890--1920. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jesse Raber.
• Authors: Raber, Jesse
• Contents: Intro; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Progressivism's Aesthetic Education; Classical Bildung; Aesthetic Education and the American School: From Horace Mann to the One Best System; Social Action Progressivism; Progressivism's Aesthetic Education: Three Authors and Three Movements; Pragmatism's Aesthetic Education; References; Chapter 2: The Doctrine of Interest: Abraham Cahan and the Herbartians; Cahan as Journalist; The Herbartians and the Doctrine of Interest; Cahan's Aesthetics: The Thrill of Truth; Rafael Na'arizokh as a Herbartian Bildungsroman Cahan's English FictionThe Rise of David Levinsky; References; Chapter 3: The Classroom Démueblé: Willa Cather and Maria Montessori; First the Education of the Senses; Montessori Aesthetics: The Iridescent Shell; Cather's Desire; Cather's Progressivism: Miraculously Preserved Youthfulness; References; Chapter 4: Herland and Zond: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Social Efficiency Educators; Social Efficiency, Social Service, Social Control; Brainpower and the Human Game; The Fearful Figure of Duty; Gilman and the Bildungsroman; Gilman's Aesthetics: The Smooth-Ground Lens; References Chapter 5: Living Has Its Own Intrinsic Quality: John Dewey's Aesthetic EducationEducation as Growth; Growth and the Authority of the Educational Profession; The Qualities of Educative Experience; Interest; Purpose; Meaning; Freedom; The Affinity between Aesthetic Experience and Deliberative Democracy; Democracy Within Education; Reconstructing Dewey: Existentialist Challenges; References; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 370.973; Education -- United States -- Philosophy; Bildungsromans, American; EDUCATION / Essays; EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions; EDUCATION / Reference; Bildungsromans, American; Education -- Philosophy; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319900445; 3319900447
• Related ISBNs: 9783319900438; 3319900439
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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