Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918 Hardcover - 1995
by Paul Theobald
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In this well-researched and absorbing account, Paul Theobald chronicles the history of the one-room country schools that were spread throughout the rural Midwest during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the region's educational history in light of the religious, economic, and political atmosphere, Theobald explores the tight connection between educational preferences and religious views, between the economics of the countryside and the educational experiences of children, and between the politics of local power and the educational prospects of the powerless. Basing his study on extensive archival research, including findings from eight midwestern states - Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota - Theobald neither condemns nor lauds the one-room school experience. Providing an objective evaluation, he examines rural school records, correspondence of early school officers, contemporary texts, and diaries and letters of rural students and teachers. As he weaves together a contextualized account of the circumstances surrounding and within the one-room country schools of the Midwest, Theobald stresses that religion was of primary importance in nineteenth-century American life. Yet he also looks carefully at the shifting economic environment at work in the countryside, particularly in regard to the development of widespread farm tenancy and the consolidation of agricultural and related industries. He challenges readers to analyze how a national move from an agrarian to an industrial view caused conflict and confusion, thereby introducing irrevocable change into rural American life.
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- Title Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918
- Author Paul Theobald
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
- Date 1995-07
- ISBN 9780809318599 / 0809318598
- Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 8.81 x 5.81 x 1.02 in (22.38 x 14.76 x 2.59 cm)
- Reading level 1460
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Geographic Orientation: Illinois
- Geographic Orientation: Indiana
- Geographic Orientation: Iowa
- Geographic Orientation: Minnesota
- Geographic Orientation: North Dakota
- Geographic Orientation: Nebraska
- Geographic Orientation: South Dakota
- Geographic Orientation: Wisconsin
- Library of Congress subjects Education, Rural - Middle West - History -, Education, Rural - Middle West - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94026920
- Dewey Decimal Code 370.193
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