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Civic Learning Through Agricultural Improvement: Bringing the Loom and the Anvil Into Proximity with the Plow (Hc)

by Glenn P. Lauzon
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781617351488
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Information Age Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Information Age Publishing
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 260
  • Original Price: GBP 80.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 540 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social

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 high-profile education reform proposals and civic initiatives. The historian who reviews the relevant literature, however, will discover something odd: most of it focuses on schooling, despite the fact that, prior to the middle of the twentieth century, formal schooling played only a small (but significant) part in most people's lives. What other educational forces and institutions bring civic ideals to bear upon minds and hearts? This question is rarely raised. At issue is a conceptual problem: we, today, tend to equate 'education' with 'schooling.'

Do county fairs and farmers' associations have anything to do with civic education? Drawing insights from debates at the time of the 'founding' of the history of education as a branch of modern scholarship, this author asserts that they do. Using the life of county fairs, farmers' associations, and farmers' institutes as its central thread, this book explores how prominent town-dwellers and leading farmers tried to use agricultural improvement to grow towns and to shape civic sensibilities in the rural Midwest. Promoting economic development was the foremost concern, but the efforts taught farmers much about their 'place' as 'good citizens' of industrializing communities. As such, this study yields insights into how rural people of the nineteenth century came to accept the ideal that 'town' and 'country' were interdependent parts of the same community. In doing so, it reminds educators and historians that much education and learning - particularly of the civic sort - takes place beyond the schoolhouse.

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