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Title: An overview of the Jeffersonian, common school, and progressive eras


1
An overview of the Jeffersonian, common school,
and progressive eras
2
Fundamental Dimensions of Classical Liberalism
3
Classical Liberal Ideology Fundamental Tenets
  • Faith in Reason
  • Natural Law
  • Republican Virtue
  • Progress
  • Nationalism
  • Freedom

4
Political Economy in the Jeffersonian Era
  • Agrarian society
  • Few urban centers
  • Homogeneous communities
  • Family as unit of production
  • Slavery
  • Revolutionary society
  • Limited republicanism
  • Power of the bourgeoisie
  • Separation of church and state

5
Ideology in the Jeffersonian Era
  • Classical liberalism
  • Patriarchy
  • Progress via revolution
  • Reason
  • Republican virtue
  • Natural aristocracy
  • Capitalism / freedom
  • Laissez-faire
  • Faculty psychology

6
Schooling in the Jeffersonian Era
  • Schools but no school "system"
  • Regional differences in schooling
  • Local financing and local control
  • Schooling primarily for white males
  • Religious and democratic purposes of schooling
  • Curriculum rote learning of the three Rs
  • Failure to create state-funded school system

7
Comparison between Thomas Jefferson Benjamin
Rush
8
Political Economy in the Early Common School Era
  • Urbanizing society
  • Beginning industrialization
  • Irish immigration
  • Westward migration
  • Social reform movements
  • Jacksonian democracy
  • Growth of commerce

9
Ideology in the Early common school era
  • Classical liberalism
  • Whig paternalism versus democratic localism
  • Religious humanitarianism
  • Faculty psychology
  • Abolitionism
  • Protestant work ethic

10
Schooling in the Early Common School Era
  • Common schools
  • State financing and state control
  • State normal schools
  • Feminization of teaching
  • Social-order purposes of schooling
  • Punishment versus pedagogy of love
  • Curriculum five Rs, health, music

11
Comparison between Horace Mann and Thomas
Jefferson
12
Comparison between Horace Mann and Orestes
Brownson
13
Political Economy in the Progressive Era
  • Urbanization
  • Industrialization
  • New immigration
  • Worker responses to industrial management
  • Monopoly capitalism
  • Taylorization
  • Centralization in government
  • Bureaucratization

14
Ideology in the Progressive Era
  • Modern or new liberalism
  • Darwins influence on natural law
  • Progress via expert planning
  • From virtue to rational ethics
  • Increased nationalism
  • New psychology
  • Scientific racism and eugenics
  • Positive versus negative freedom

15
Schooling in the Progressive Era
  • Compulsory schooling
  • Centralized control of school boards
  • Progressive schooling for social efficiency
    versus progressive education for developmental
    democracy
  • Curriculum from classical to differentiated
  • Learning by doing
  • Vocational education
  • Extracurricular activities
  • Schooling for social stability and employable
    skills
  • Schooling for equal opportunity and for
    meritocracy
  • Standardized testing
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