Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America

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.

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Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America

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.

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299236137
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 05/26/2010
Series: The History of Print and Digital Culture
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 225
File size: 863 KB

About the Author

Adam R. Nelson is associate professor of educational policy studies and history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964 and The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools, 1950–1985. John L. Rudolph is professor of curriculum and instruction and of history of science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education.

Table of Contents

Preface       

Introduction: Education, Print Culture, and the Negotiation of Meaning in Modern America    

Adam R. Nelson


Part 1: Librarians as Educators

Which Truth, What Fiction? Librarians' Book Recommendations for Children, 1876–1890   

Kate McDowell

A "Colored Authors Collection" to Exhibit to the World and Educate a Race   

Michael Benjamin


Part 2: Children's Experience of Print

Merry's Flock: Making Something Out of Educational Reform in the Early Twentieth Century   

Ryan K. Anderson

Printed Presence: Twentieth-Century Catholic Print Culture for Youngsters in the United States   

Robert A. Orsi


Part 3: Workers as Readers, Reading as Work

Unschooled but Not Uneducated: Print, Public Speaking, and the Networks of Informal Working-Class Education, 1900–1940   

Frank Tobias Higbie

"Write as You Fight": The Pedagogical Agenda of the Working Woman, 1929–1935   

Jane Greer

"A Gentleman Is No Sissy": Reading, Work, and Citizenship in the Civilian Conservation Corps   

Catherine Turner


Part 4: Print, Education, and the State

State Regulation of the Textbook Industry   

Adam R. Shapiro

Teaching Reading with Television: Constructing Closed Captioning Using the Rhetoric of Literacy   

Greg Downey


Conclusion

Education, Work, and the Culture of Print: Directions for Future Research   

James P. Danky


Contributors   

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