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Author McKnight, Douglas.

Title Schooling, the Puritan imperative, and the molding of an American national identity : education's "errand into the wilderness" / Douglas McKnight.

Publication Info. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 165 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in curriculum theory
Studies in curriculum theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and indexes.
Contents The Puritan Gift: The Historical Condition of Writing the Symbolic Narrative of America -- Puritan Moral Symbols: Errand Into the Wilderness and the Jeremiad Ritual -- Finding Order and Balance Between Faith and Reason Through Educational Maps -- Inheriting the Errand: Hopes and Fears of the Anglo-Protestant Middle Class -- The New Discourses of Education: "Reason" to Preserve the Moral Imperative -- Public Education as Moral Transcendence: William Torrey Harris and the Errand Impulse -- Moral Crisis of America and Its Schools: Return of the Jeremiad Ritual.
Summary Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis. This text explores the relationship between the purposes of education and the notion of an American identity and morality rooted in the Puritan concept of an "errand into the wilderness."
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Moral education -- United States.
Moral education.
United States.
Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
Education -- Aims and objectives.
National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, American.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: McKnight, Douglas. Schooling, the Puritan imperative, and the molding of an American national identity. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003 0805843175 (DLC) 2002035396 (OCoLC)50756077
ISBN 1410607542 (electronic book)
9781410607546 (electronic book)
0805843175 (alkaline paper)