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1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages) |
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data file |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book offers an insightful view of the complex relations between home and school in the working-class immigrant Italian community of New Haven, Connecticut. Through the lenses of history, sociology, and education, Learning to Forget presents a highly readable account of cross-generational experiences during the period from 1870 to 1940, chronicling one generation's suspicions toward public education and another's need to assimilate. Through careful research Lassonde finds that not all working class parents were enthusiastic supporters of education. Not only did the time and energy spent in school restrict children's potential financial contributions to the family, but attitudes that children encountered in school often ran counter to the family's traditional values. Legally mandated education and child labour laws eventually resolved these conflicts, but not without considerable reluctance and resistance. "As original and enlightening a piece of historical work as I have read in the field of education in many years." John Modell, Brown University. |
| Contents |
""CONTENTS""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Immigrants and Immigrant Neighborhoods: Economic and Residential Change in New Haven, 1830-1930""; ""2 Learning and Earning: Schooling, Juvenile Employment, and the Early Life Course in Late-Nineteenth-Century New Haven""; ""3 The Painful Contrast: Italian Immigrant Children at Home and at School ""; ""4 Hands to Mouths: The Changing Economy of Giving and Taking in Italian Immigrant F amilies""; ""5 From Courtship to Dating: The Marriage Market, Schooling, and the Family Economy"" |
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""6 The Landscape of Ambition: Geography, Ethnicity, and Class in Children�s School Experiences""""7 “Too Good for That�: Effort and Opportunity in the “New� High School""; ""Conclusion: Elm City�s Youth ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working class -- Education -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 20th century.
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Working class -- Education. |
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Connecticut -- New Haven. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Working class -- Education -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Immigrants -- Education -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 19th century.
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Immigrants -- Education. |
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Immigrants. |
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Immigrants -- Education -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 20th century.
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Home and school -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 20th century.
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Home and school. |
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Home and school -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 19th century.
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Italian American children -- Education -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 20th century.
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Italian American children -- Education -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lassonde, Stephen. Learning to forget. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2005 0300073968 9780300073966 (DLC) 2004117580 (OCoLC)58555724 |
| ISBN |
9780300128901 (electronic book) |
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0300128908 (electronic book) |
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9780300073966 |
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0300073968 |
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128172923X |
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9781281729231 |
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9780300134339 |
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0300134339 |
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