Overview
- Integrates the institution into other emerging areas of study, particularly school finance, mass incarceration, and the history of small-town and rural areas
- Features the work of a diverse range of up-and-coming and established scholars historicizing in their respective fields Historicizes the student and cultural perspective of the American high school
Part of the book series: Historical Studies in Education (HSE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. The history of education, however, has often reduced the institution to its educational function alone, thus missing its significantly broader importance. As a corrective, this collection of essays serves four ends: as an introduction to the history of the high school; as a reevaluation of the power of narratives that privilege the perspective of school leaders and the curriculum; as a glimpse into the worlds created by students and their communities; and, most critically, as a means of sparking conversations about where we might look next for stories worth telling.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Kyle P. Steele is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA. His first book is Making a Mass Institution: Indianapolis and the American High School (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth-Century American High School
Editors: Kyle P. Steele
Series Title: Historical Studies in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79922-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79921-2Published: 08 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79924-3Published: 09 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79922-9Published: 07 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2945-7173
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 367
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Education, Education Policy, US History, Youth Culture