UID:
almafu_9959230468002883
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-72923-X
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9786611729233
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0-300-12890-8
Content:
This book offers an insightful view of the complex relations between home and school in the working-class immigrant Italian community of New Haven, Connecticut. Through the lenses of history, sociology, and education, Learning to Forget presents a highly readable account of cross-generational experiences during the period from 1870 to 1940, chronicling one generation's suspicions toward public education and another's need to assimilate. Through careful research Lassonde finds that not all working class parents were enthusiastic supporters of education. Not only did the time and energy spent in school restrict children's potential financial contributions to the family, but attitudes that children encountered in school often ran counter to the family's traditional values. Legally mandated education and child labor laws eventually resolved these conflicts, but not without considerable reluctance and resistance.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Front matter --
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CONTENTS --
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PREFACE --
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INTRODUCTION --
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1. IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORHOODS: ECONOMIC AND RESIDENTIAL CHANGE IN NEW HAVEN, 1850-1930 --
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2. LEARNING AND EARNING: SCHOOLING, JUVENILE EMPLOYMENT, AND THE EARLY LIFE COURSE IN LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW HAVEN --
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3. THE PAINFUL CONTRAST: ITALIAN IMMIGRANT CHILDREN AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL --
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4. HANDS TO MOUTHS: THE CHANGING ECONOMY OF GIVING AND TAKING IN ITALIAN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES --
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5. FROM COURTSHIP TO DATING: THE MARRIAGE MARKET, SCHOOLING, AND THE FAMILY ECONOMY --
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6. THE LANDSCAPE OF AMBITION: GEOGRAPHY, ETHNICITY, AND CLASS IN CHILDREN'S SCHOOL EXPERIENCES --
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7. "TOO GOOD FOR THAT": EFFORT AND OPPORTUNITY IN THE "NEW" HIGH SCHOOL --
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CONCLUSION: ELM CITY'S YOUTH --
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NOTES --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-07396-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.12987/9780300128901
URL:
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