Education And The Culture Of Print In Modern America

Author : Adam R. Nelson,John L. Rudolph
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0299236145

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Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth century, the historical case studies in Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America deploy a view of education that extends far beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. The nine essays examine “how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television—all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. This volume exposes what counts as education in American society and the many contexts in which education and print intersect. Offering perspectives from print culture history, library and information studies, literary studies, labor history, gender history, the history of race and ethnicity, the history of science and technology, religious studies, and the history of childhood and adolescence, Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America pioneers an investigation into the intersection of education and print culture.

Author : Adam R. Nelson,John L. Rudolph
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780299236137

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Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America by Adam R. Nelson,John L. Rudolph Pdf

Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth century, the historical case studies in Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America deploy a view of education that extends far beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. The nine essays examine “how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television—all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. This volume exposes what counts as education in American society and the many contexts in which education and print intersect. Offering perspectives from print culture history, library and information studies, literary studies, labor history, gender history, the history of race and ethnicity, the history of science and technology, religious studies, and the history of childhood and adolescence, Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America pioneers an investigation into the intersection of education and print culture.

Author : Charles L. Cohen,Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0299225747

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Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America by Charles L. Cohen,Paul S. Boyer Pdf

Explores how a variety of print media—religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary “Bible-zines”—have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War

Author : Rachel B. Gross
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Homesickness
ISBN : 9781479820511

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Beyond the Synagogue by Rachel B. Gross Pdf

Author : Tobias Higbie
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252051098

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Labor's Mind by Tobias Higbie Pdf

Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Working people regularly defied these expectations, cultivating the knowledge of experience and embracing a vibrant subculture of self-education and reading. Labor's Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working-class mind. As Higbie shows, networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor movement. Dispersed across the industrial landscape, this movement helped bridge conflicts within radical and progressive politics even as it trained workers for the transformative new unionism of the 1930s. Revelatory and sympathetic, Labor's Mind reclaims a forgotten chapter in working-class intellectual life while mapping present-day possibilities for labor, higher education, and digitally enabled self-study.

Author : Paul T. Jaeger,Ursula Gorham,John Carlo Bertot,Lindsay C. Sarin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442233478

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Public Libraries, Public Policies, and Political Processes by Paul T. Jaeger,Ursula Gorham,John Carlo Bertot,Lindsay C. Sarin Pdf

Over the past thirty years, significant shifts in technology, political ideologies, and policy goals have resulted in an environment in which public libraries face the highest expectations to serve community needs against unprecedented political, economic, and policy challenges. Drawing on two decades of original research conducted by the authors, this book provides a data-driven examination of the interrelated impacts of political discourse and public policy processes on public libraries and the ways in which they are able to serve their communities, explaining the complex current circumstances and offering strategies for effectively creating a better future for public libraries.

Author : James Philip Danky,Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0252066995

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Print Culture in a Diverse America by James Philip Danky,Wayne A. Wiegand Pdf

In the modern era, there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture--books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This long-overdue collection offers a unique foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States. The contributors to this award-winning collection pen interdisciplinary essays that examine the many ways print culture functions within different groups. The essays link gender, class, and ethnicity to the uses and goals of a wide variety of publications and also explore the role print materials play in constructing historical events like the Titanic disaster. Contributors: Lynne M. Adrian, Steven Biel, James P. Danky, Elizabeth Davey, Michael Fultz, Jacqueline Goldsby, Norma Fay Green, Violet Johnson, Elizabeth McHenry, Christine Pawley, Yumei Sun, and Rudolph J. Vecoli

Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439126264

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Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom Pdf

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.

Author : Jesse W. Schwartz,Daniel Worden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501359750

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New Directions in Print Culture Studies by Jesse W. Schwartz,Daniel Worden Pdf

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America. The unifying questions posed and answered in this book are methodological: How can we make material, archival objects meaningful? How can we engage and contest dominant conceptions of aesthetic, historical, and literary periods? How can we present archival material in ways that make it accessible to other scholars and students? What theoretical commitments does a focus on material objects entail? New Directions in Print Culture Studies brings together leading scholars to address the methodological, historical, and theoretical commitments that emerge from studying how periodicals, books, images, and ideas circulated from the 19th century to the present. Reaching beyond national boundaries, the essays in this book focus on the different materials and archives we can use to rewrite literary history in ways that highlight not a canon of “major” literary works, but instead the networks, dialogues, and tensions that define print cultures in various moments and movements.

Author : Christine Pawley,Louise S. Robbins
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299293239

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Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America by Christine Pawley,Louise S. Robbins Pdf

For well over one hundred years, libraries open to the public have played a crucial part in fostering in Americans the skills and habits of reading and writing, by routinely providing access to standard forms of print: informational genres such as newspapers, pamphlets, textbooks, and other reference books, and literary genres including poetry, plays, and novels. Public libraries continue to have an extraordinary impact; in the early twenty-first century, the American Library Association reports that there are more public library branches than McDonald's restaurants in the United States. Much has been written about libraries from professional and managerial points of view, but less so from the perspectives of those most intimately involved—patrons and librarians. Drawing on circulation records, patron reviews, and other archived materials, Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America underscores the evolving roles that libraries have played in the lives of American readers. Each essay in this collection examines a historical circumstance related to reading in libraries. The essays are organized in sections on methods of researching the history of reading in libraries; immigrants and localities; censorship issues; and the role of libraries in providing access to alternative, nonmainstream publications. The volume shows public libraries as living spaces where individuals and groups with diverse backgrounds, needs, and desires encountered and used a great variety of texts, images, and other media throughout the twentieth century.

Author : Paul R. Burden
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0810876957

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A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites by Paul R. Burden Pdf

The Web is always moving, always changing. As some Web sites come, others go, but the most effective sites have been well established. A Subject Guide to Quality Web Sites provides a list of key web sites in various disciplines that will assist researchers with a solid starting point for their queries. The sites included in this collection are stable and have librarian tested high-quality information: the most important attribute information can have.

Author : Victoria Bissell Brown
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812237471

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The Education of Jane Addams by Victoria Bissell Brown Pdf

"Excellent. . . . The Education of Jane Addams provides a detailed, wonderfully complex analysis of Addams's ideas, life, and work."--Journal of American History

Author : Helane Adams Androne
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476617343

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Multiethnic American Literatures by Helane Adams Androne Pdf

This book provides original essays that suggest ways to engage students in the classroom with the cultural factors of American literature. Some of the essays focus on individual authors’ works, others view American literature more broadly, and still others focus on the application of culturally based methods for reading. All suggest a closer look at how ethnicity, culture and pedagogy interact in the classroom to help students better understand the complexity of works by African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and several other sometimes overlooked American cultural groups. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Jill S. Kuhnheim,Melanie Nicholson
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294102

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Teaching Modern Latin American Poetries by Jill S. Kuhnheim,Melanie Nicholson Pdf

The essays in this book, groundbreaking for its focus on teaching Latin American poetry, reflect the region's geographic and cultural heterogeneity. They address works from Mexico, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Uruguay, as well as from indigenous communities found within these national distinctions, including the Kaqchikel Maya and Zapotec. The volume's essays help instructors teach poetry written from the second half of the twentieth century on, meaningfully connecting this contemporary corpus with older poetic traditions. Contributors address teaching various topics, from the silva and the long poem to Afro-descendant poetry, in ways that bring performance, digital approaches, queer theory, and translation into action. The insights offered here will demonstrate how Latin American poetry can become a part of classes in African diasporic studies, indigenous studies, history, and anthropology.

Author : Matthew Conner,Leah Plocharczyk
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789733853

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Libraries and Reading by Matthew Conner,Leah Plocharczyk Pdf

In a climate of tightened budgets and severe demands on public literacy resources, Conner and Plocharczyck go to the foundations of social justice in Cultural Studies to show how the means of integrating those with disabilities into libraries and communities can be found in our everyday practices.