Bending the Future to Their Will: Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy
This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives of eleven women educators and social activists—Jane Addams, Mary Sheldon Barnes, Mary Ritter Beard, Rachel Davis DuBois, Hazel Hertzberg, Alice Miel, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Bessie Pierce, Lucy...
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This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives of eleven women educators and social activists concerned over the last century with issues of difference in schools and society.
Acknowledgments1Introduction12Considering the Source: Mary Sheldon Barnes173Lucy Maynard Salmon: Progressive Historian, Teacher, and Democrat474"Widening the Circle": Jane Addams, Gender, and the Re/Definition of Democracy735Shaping Inclusive Education: Mary Ritter Beard and Marion Thompson Wright936Lucy Sprague Mitchell: Teacher, Geographer, and Teacher Educator1257Bessie Louise Pierce and Her Contributions to the Social Studies1498Rachel Davis DuBois: Intercultural Education Pioneer1699Composing Her Life: Hilda Taba and Social Studies History18510Alice Miel: Progressive Advocate of Democratic Social Learning for Children20711The Search for a Coherent Curriculum Vision: Hazel Whitman Hertzberg23512Courage, Conviction, and Social Education253Index277About the Contributors289
\ History Of Education QuarterlyHistorians of education and women, curriculum theorists, and social studies educators should read Bending the Future. We should heed the editors' advice to continue resurrecting educators lost to history and to continue asking what is left out of the social studies curriculum. As importantly, we should heed Hertzberg's recommendations that historians and social studies experts stop criticizing each other and start cooperating, discussing how to create a curriculum that effectively integrates these disciplines and teaches diversity without divisiveness. This book is a fine source to ignite that discussion.\ \ \ \ \ The Annals Of IowaThis volume is an important contribution to the history of education for democracy in the United States. The book is also an important contribution to the history of women and the history of ideas in the United States by restoring these women to their roles as public intellectuals in an important debate on democracy.\ \
