Author : Joseph da Silva
Release : 2018-08-21
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 869/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis School(house) Design and Curriculum in Nineteenth Century America by : Joseph da Silva
Download or read book School(house) Design and Curriculum in Nineteenth Century America written by Joseph da Silva. This book was released on 2018-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth century American school architecture and curriculum. While other studies have queried the intersections of school architecture and curriculum, they approach them without consideration for the ways in which their relationships are culturally formative—or how they reproduce or resist extant inequities in the United States. Da Silva addresses this gap in the school design archive with a cross-disciplinary approach, taking to task the cultural consequences of the relationship between these two primary elements of teaching and learning in a ‘hotspot’ of American education—the nineteenth century. Providing a historical and theoretical framework for practitioners and scholars in evaluating the politics of modern American school design, the book holds a mirror to the oft-criticized state of American education today.