Schoolmaster's Empire: Race, Conquest, and the Centralization of Common Schooling in California, 1848-1879

Autor/in	Kelly, Matthew Gardner
Titel	Schoolmaster's Empire: Race, Conquest, and the Centralization of Common Schooling in California, 1848-1879
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 56 (2016) 3, S.445-472 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1748-5959
Schlagwörter	Educational History; Urbanization; Immigration; Educational Change; Governance; Educational Administration; Educational Innovation; Administrative Organization; Racial Attitudes; Progressive Education; Industrialization; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Urbanisation; Urbanisierung; Bildungsreform; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Rassenfrage; Reformpädagogik; Progressive Erziehung; Industrialisation; Industrialisierung; Kalifornien
Abstract	This article explores how education reformers in California pioneered forms of centralized educational governance between 1850 and 1879. Challenging previous scholarship that has attributed the success of this early educational state to reformer John Swett and New England migrants, this article situates the creation of common schools in California within the larger context of American state-building in the nineteenth-century West. While increased state authority over education was a goal for reformers across the nation, this article contends that California's early innovations in centralization reflected a regionally specific response to the dilemmas of governing a recently acquired territory distant from eastern centers of power. The precarious nature of elite attempts to convert California into an American place, reflected in perceived lawlessness, weak governmental authority, and racial anxiety, inspired forms of educational organization commonly associated with Progressive Era responses to industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. The desire to promote nineteenth-century American racial and governmental order in California, this article concludes, powerfully shaped the growth of public education in the state, influencing the organization of schooling in ways that suggest the importance of looking beyond the Northeast to understand the development of public education in the United States. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01