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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Reform Movements"”.
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Temperance Reform in the Cotton Kingdom
The study of antebellum reform movements has usually focused upon the North because the hub and the bulk of reform activity was located there, and because Southern states expressed opposition to what they branded as fanatical social ideas, most notably abolition. The prominence of abolition among …
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A comparative analysis of reforms in organizing curricula and methods of secondary science instruction in the United States during the last decades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
This study involved a comparative analysis of reforms in the organization and structure of curricula and instruction in science education in the United States during the last decades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A review of literature of these periods revealed similar concerns and …
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Social reform in the burned-over district: Rochester, New York as a test case, 1830-1854
… the decades following 1820, a variety of social reform crusades swept western New York. Although none of these crusades was peculiar to New York, this region somehow seemed more receptive to them than any other section of the country. The region's responsiveness to reform movements and religious …
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Reflective intervention: An alternative staff development model
… State and federal governments are funding school reform movements to create model schools that increase student learning and achievement. Though many of these movements begin with organizational issues, eventually the issues of changing teacher-student interaction to increase learning is …
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Brothers professionally and socially: the rise of local engineering clubs during the Gilded Age
… the absence of engineers in Progressive Era reform movements, while Edwin T. Layton Jr has criticized engineers in the 1920s for an excessive focus on sterile status seeking. This perceived lack of twentieth century engineering activism is especially puzzling given that nineteenth-century …
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Between Tradition and Transgression: Education, Culture, and (Inter)national Pedagogies in Spain (1857–1931)
… examines three prominent educational reform movements in late nineteenth- and early- twentieth century Spain: the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Free Institute of Teaching), the Escuela Moderna (Modern School), and the Escola Nova Catalana (New Catalan School). Studying these …
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Some aspects of the woman suffrage movement in Indiana
… to achieve other rights for women and additional reform movements were also examined when their existence, their leadership or their activities affected the status of the woman suffrage movement in Indiana. In addition, attempts to achieve woman suffrage in other states and at the national level …
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Hyperpedagogy: Intersections among poststructuralist hypertext theory, critical inquiry, and social justice pedagogies
… systems inculcated within standards-based reform movements typically, moreover, discriminate against historically marginalized learners. Hyperpedagogy seeks to elucidate the closeting of privilege in e-learning so that learners of color, female learners, and homosexual learners can be …
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Comparison of Achievement in 7A/B Block Scheduled Schools and 7-Period Traditional Scheduled Schools in Virginia
… years. In response to societal changes and reform movements, the secondary school schedule is receiving renewed attention. Block scheduling, the use of extended periods of time for learning, is one response to school restructuring in Virginia and throughout the nation. In Virginia, the 7A/B …
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The new traditionalist movement: a study of church, state, and economy
… past, emergence of right-wing conservative moral reform movements has resulted in profound changes for our society. Two of the most visible examples would be the 18th amendment establishing the prohibition of alcohol and the movement to destroy communism in America, McCarthyism. since the …
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Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
… how authors reacted to events such as Pluralism reform, the opening of training schools for clergy, and the Oxford Movement. There was a growing importance of institutions (including new physical buildings and Anglican reform movements). Further, the clergy, pushed by the increased expectation to …
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Reviving His Work: Social Isolation, Religious Fervor and Reform in the Burned Over District of Western New York, 1790-1860
This thesis examines revivalism and reform movements in rural areas of western New York. The bulk of literature on this region in the Second Great Awakening concentrates on middle class, urban people. This thesis argues that revivalism and evangelical fervor was carried to rural portions of the …
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Exporting radicalism within the empire: Scots Presbyterian political values in Scotland and British North America, c.1815-c.1850
… offers a reinterpretation of radicalism and reform movements in Scotland and British North America in the first half of the nineteenth century by examining the relationship between ecclesiology and political action. It considers the ways in which Presbyterian political theory and the memory …
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Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945--1949
… study historicizes current media policies and reform efforts by analyzing the 1940s postwar critical juncture when policymakers, social movements, and communication industries grappled over the role of a commercial press in a democratic society. By focusing on policy formations around the …
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The Impact of Language Planning and Policy on High School Long-term English Language Learners in a Selected North Texas Urban District
Language policy reform movements have increased accountability in order for schools to improve student achievement and measure the progress of English language learners. The number of English language learners (ELLs) has grown significantly in the school population, yet the level of academic …
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The philosophic soul of reform : Herbert Croly's ideal of progressivism
… historians have found that within the passionate reform movements that inundated America from the 1890's to 1917, there was a corresponding intellectual movement away from the rigid and abstract formal logic that had characterized nineteenth century thought. This social thought, stressing the …
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A selected, annotated edition of the letters of George Ripley, 1828-1841
… Club, and participation in the many reform movements of the period. Specifically, these letters detail Ripley's career as minister of Boston's Purchase Street Church, his missionary work for the American Unitarian Association, the production of his Specimens of Standard Foreign …
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