Emma Willard: Pioneer in Social Studies Education

Nelson, Murry

doi:10.1080/00933104.1987.10505548

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“…For the purposes of this article, I define the origins of the social studies narrowly as the ideological, institutional, and epistemological origins of the CSS report, which addressed education at the high school and middle school levels. I do not address the equally important literature on the origins of the social studies at the elementary level (Akenson, 1987; Barton, 2006; Bohan, 2005; Egan, 1980; LeRiche, 1987; Ravitch, 1987; Stallones, 2003; Zilversmit, 1976), nor do I address biographical accounts of social studies pioneers who were not directly involved with the CSS report or its immediate context (Keels, 1988, 1994; McAninch, 1990; Nelson, 1987; Osborne, 2003). I exclude significant work on the Committee of Ten (Nelson, 1992; Sizer, 1964) because these studies do not explicitly link the contents of these reports to subsequent developments.…”

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John Dewey’s Influence on the Origins of the Social Studies: An Analysis of the Historiography and New Interpretation

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2009

Review of Educational Research

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This article offers a critical review of the historical literature on the National Education Association’s (NEA) 1916 Committee on Social Studies (CSS) report, the document generally believed to have launched the social studies movement in American secondary schools. The review begins with a critical analysis of the four most pervasive interpretations of the report. Drawing upon these interpretations, the author suggests that there are three central issues at the heart of these disputes. The first is over the ideological origins of the report; the second, its institutional origins; and the third, its epistemological position. It is argued that the influence of John Dewey is the key to overcoming these disagreements by suggesting that the members of the Committee agreed upon a core of shared beliefs that reflected his philosophical ideas.

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John Dewey’s Influence on the Origins of the Social Studies: An Analysis of the Historiography and New Interpretation

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2009

Review of Educational Research

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“…Emma Willard, however, presented a contrasting image of history teaching in the 1800s. Beginning in the 1820s, she advocated the teaching of history and geography at all levels (Nelson, 1987). Hannah Adams (1755-1831) also contradicts the image of non-existent history curricula in the early republic.…”

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Digging Trenches: Nationalism and the First National Report on the Elementary History Curriculum

Bohan

2005

Theory & Research in Social Education

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How to Write a History Textbook: The Willard–Willson Debate over History Education in the Common School Era

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2019

Hist. of Ed. Quarterly

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The essay reinterprets the 1845–1847 pamphlet war between Emma Willard and Marcius Willson, authors of popular history schoolbooks. Willson publicly attacked the accuracy and literary quality of history schoolbooks by eight leading authors, with particular attention to Willard's, just as he was publishing his first school history. Willard and Willson practiced different kinds of history authorship that reflected their different backgrounds, intellectual milieus, and professional circumstances. This essay questions conventional readings of the debate and argues that their subsequent exchange over plagiarism, style, and sourcing illuminated important issues in the purposes of history education, the challenges of growing markets, and new theories of historiography. The debate showed that schoolbooks were not simply derivative “guardians of tradition,” but that they could be portals for new disciplinary theories in an age without a robust professional research infrastructure to test and filter them.

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Emma Willard: Pioneer in Social Studies Education

Cited by 4 publications

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John Dewey’s Influence on the Origins of the Social Studies: An Analysis of the Historiography and New Interpretation

John Dewey’s Influence on the Origins of the Social Studies: An Analysis of the Historiography and New Interpretation

Digging Trenches: Nationalism and the First National Report on the Elementary History Curriculum

How to Write a History Textbook: The Willard–Willson Debate over History Education in the Common School Era

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