Learning To Forget: Schooling And Family Life In New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940 - Couverture rigide

Lassonde, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300073968 ISBN 13 : 9780300073966

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Lassonde is dean of Calhoun College and lecturer in history at Yale University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300073968
• ISBN 13: 9780300073966
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible