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In the cause of true education : Henry Barnard and nineteenth-century school reform / Edith Nye MacMullen. --.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300048094 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0300048092 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xiv, 378 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Subject:
- Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900.
Educators > United States > Biography.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook Campus | LA 2317 .B18 M33 1990 (Text) | 11111000489593 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1990 November #1
This is the first full-scale critical biography of Barnard (1811-1900), one of the great architects of the American public school system, who is too often left in the shadow of Horace Mann, the elder statesman who served as his mentor. MacMullen's carefully researched and timely study attempts to balance that somewhat distorted picture of the development of American education. The author, a lecturer in history at Yale, analyzes (sometimes with excessive caution) Barnard's public life and career as an early advocate of publicly supported schools open to all children and the importance of professional preparation for teachers. Original source material is amply but not excessively cited. Barnard emerges from the well presented historical background as a leader but also a product of the period's shortcomings (e.g., separate education for women and blacks). MacMullen's work is a significant contribution in the history of education literature and will most likely become the standard Barnard biography. For academic and larger public libraries.-- Arla Lindgren, St. John's Univ., Jamaica, N.Y. Copyright 1990 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1990 November #2
Connecticut educator Henry Barnard (1811-1900) was ``an important figure in the phenomenon known as the Common School Reform,'' notes Yale history lecturer MacMullen, yet, as she shows, his attempts to develop informed and cultivated teachers was often at odds with that selfsame constituency, which in the antebellum period was increasingly female. If for some 30 years his preeminence as a historian and as a professional peer of Horace Mann went unchallenged, Bernard ultimately was overtaken by the political ferment of his times and retreated into obscurity. In a respectful, scholarly study, MacMullen, unfortunately, fails to make sufficiently interesting the country's first Commissioner of Education, a once notable reformer whom his biographer characterizes as ``a type more than an individual.'' (Jan.) Copyright 1990 Cahners Business Information.