Fear and Schooling: Understanding the Troubled History of Progressive Education

by Ronald Evans

By exploring the tensions, impacts, and origins of major controversies relating to schooling and curricula since the early twentieth century, this insightful text illustrates how fear has played a key role in steering the development of education in the United States.

Through rigorous historical investigation, Evans demonstrates how numerous public disputes over specific curricular content have been driven by broader societal hopes and fears...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367026945
• ISBN13: 9780367026943
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"