附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
The American scholar vs. American schools: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Horace Mann -- Romantic wholism: education as reintegration -- Philosophy descending: James Marsh and Bronson Alcott -- Varieties of transcendentalist teaching: Margaret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau -- The turbulent embrace of thinking: prose style and the languages of education -- Uniting the child and the curriculum: John Dewey -- Education by poetry: pedagogy and the arts in early modernism -- Opening classrooms and minds: the 1960s and 1970s -- Enacting the active mind: teaching English, teaching teaching.