Civic learning through agricultural improvement : bringing "the loom and the anvil into proximity with the plow"

• Main Author: Lauzon, Glenn P. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
• Series: Studies in the history of education (Greenwich, Conn.)
• Subjects: Agricultural conservation > Middle West > 19th century.; Service learning > Middle West > 19th century.; Social participation > Middle West > 19th century.; Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.; History of education.; Social and cultural anthropology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806616848
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-149-5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 240 pages)

How do people use education to respond to change? How do people learn what is expected of 'good citizens' in their communities? These questions have long concerned educational historians, civic educators, and social scientists. In recent years, they have captured national attention through...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Agricultural improvement as civic education
• Chapter 1. Locating the civics in nineteenth-century agriculture
• Chapter 2. Between frontier and civilization: The agricultural improvement agenda
• Chapter 3. Fair frustrations: Agricultural education as civic learning in the 1850s
• Chapter 4. Growing Indiana: Agricultural improvement and the growth imperative
• Chapter 5. Promoting the farmer's interest: Politics and the grange
• Chapter 6. Between town and country: The grange and economic cooperation
• Chapter 7. Bringing town and country together for progress at the county fair
• Chapter 8. Bringing farmers into town for a strictly agricultural education
• Chapter 9. Agricultural improvement's civic harvest
• Chapter 10. The historian's search for civic learning.