Format:
Online-Ressource (189 p)
ISBN:
9780826440259
Series Statement:
Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
Content:
The American idealist movement started in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858, becoming more influential as women joined and influenced its development. Susan Elizabeth Blow was well known as an educator and pedagogical theorist who founded the first public kindergarten program in America (1873-1884). Anna C. Brackett was a feminist and pedagogical theorist and the first female principal of a secondary school (St. Louis Normal School, 1863-72). Grace C. Bibb was a feminist literary critic and the first female dean at the University of Missouri, Columbia (1878-84). American idealism took on a new form
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The legacy of American idealism; 2 Susan Blow: philosophy in education; 3 Anna Brackett: feminist philosopher-educator; 4 Paraprofessional philosophy stage I: Grace Bibb, Ellen Mitchell, and the Concord School of Philosophy; 5 Paraprofessional philosophy stage II: Eliza Read Sunderland and Lucia Ames Mead; 6 Marietta Kies: private virtue in public life; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847143006
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826440259
Additional Edition:
Print version America''s First Women Philosophers : Transplanting Hegel, 1860-1925
Language:
English
Keywords:
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