HISTORY ASSIGNMENT #2
ROLES OF WOMEN AND MEN IN 19TH CENTURY SCHOOLS
Your task is to research roles of men and women in the development and functioning of 19th century schools. Pay careful attention to the ways that views of the family and of gender roles affected the schools.
1. You will need to seek information from at least 3 sources, BEGINNING with EITHER edition of The American School, Chapter 7 by Joel Spring on reserve in the library. Take thorough notes about the issues that affected the development and content of schools during this period.
2. After gaining an overview of the issues from Spring, choose one idea to focus on as you pursue your next 2 sources. For example, you might want to learn more about frontier and one room schoolhouses, teacher education and normal schools, Pestalozzi and his method of instruction, the development of bureaucracy, or McGuffeyís Readers and capitalism.
3. You will keep an annotated bibliography of your sources.
4. Once you have enough information, create a time-line of the time period from 1820 to approximately 1860. Include events pertaining to education, politics, the economy, and society.
5. Next, create a poster that provides a visual representation of key features related to gender and schools. You could use a concept map or bullets for the features. If you compare and contrast Pestalozzi and McGuffey or depict the relationship of MCGuffeyís readers to capitalism, you could use an H-map or a Venn diagram. Also include on the poster significant world and national events of the time period.
6. Then, prepare an oral presentation of approximately 15 minutes. Connect the information you researched to the functions of schooling that education in this time period served. Prepare an outline of your talk to be handed in.
7. Finally, write three assessment questions (and their answers) that could be used to assess your peersí understanding of the information you will be presenting.
8. On Monday of Week 8, you will hand in