Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920 / Edition 2

by James L. Leloudis

Overview

Schooling the New South deftly combines social and political history, gender studies, and African American history into a story of educational reform. James Leloudis recreates North Carolina's classrooms as they existed at the turn of the century and explores the wide-ranging social and psychological implications of the transition from old-fashioned common schools to modern graded schools. He argues that this critical change in methods of instruction both reflected and guided the transformation of the American South. According to Leloudis, architects of the New South embraced the public school as an institution capable of remodeling their world according to the principles of free labor and market exchange. By altering habits of learning, they hoped to instill in students a vision of life that valued individual ambition and enterprise above the familiar relations of family, church, and community. Their efforts eventually created both a social and a pedagogical revolution, says Leloudis. Public schools became what they are today—the primary institution responsible for the socialization of children and therefore the principal battleground for society's conflicts over race, class, and gender. Southern History/Education/North Carolina

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807848081
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	02/22/1999
Series:	Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies
Edition description:	2
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)

About the Author

James L. Leloudis, coauthor of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World, is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the Center for the Study of the American South.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

What makes Schooling the New South such an important work is its account of how schools developed into centers of social transformation. . . . This valuable piece of scholarship proves that reform is a never-ending cycle. If not built upon, one generation's reform can be another generation's problem.—The Historian



A fascinating history of the intellectual development, ambitions, and efforts of a group of educational reformers.—Australasian Journal of American Studies



Schooling the New South may be the best work yet in revealing the complexities of the transformation between 1880 and 1920 from one-room common schools to the modern graded school system.—Southern Cultures



Enlightening, thought-provoking, and a pleasure to read.—Journal of Appalachian Studies



An exemplary piece of scholarship. With graceful prose and deft analysis James Leloudis has succeeded in moving educational history (long considered a stepchild of the discipline) from the periphery to the center of studies of social change.—Journal of Southern History



Leloudis's work is particularly effective in showing how the middle class used education as a means to establish a new social arrangement in North Carolina.—Educational Studies



Lively, forceful, and worthwhile.—Choice



Essential reading for students of the historical role of schools in American society, of the dynamics between reformers and the reformed, and of the emergence of the New South.—American Historical Review



Schooling the New South is well researched, gracefully written and effectively integrates educational, social, political and cultural history.—Journal of Southwest Georgia History



This important book supplants earlier studies of North Carolina's education revival. . . . It is recommended highly for students of 'the Old North State,' the South, and American education.—History: Reviews of New Books

Editorial Reviews

ÝP¨articularly effective in showing how the middle class used education as a means to establish a new social arrangement.

"Educational Studies"

A fascinating history of the intellectual development, ambitions, and efforts of a group of educational reformers.

"Australasian Journal of American Studies"

"A fascinating history of the intellectual development, ambitions, and efforts of a group of educational reformers.

"Australasian Journal of American Studies""

[P]articularly effective in showing how the middle class used education as a means to establish a new social arrangement.

"Educational Studies"

An exemplary piece of scholarship.

"Journal of Southern History"

Essential reading for students of the historical role of schools in American society.

"American Historical Review"

This valuable piece of scholarship proves that reform is a never-ending cycle.

"The Historian"

From the Publisher