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Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational PurposeReading George Counts’s “A Call to the Teachers of the Nation” as a Jeffersonian Text

Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational Purpose: Reading George... [The chapter examines George Counts’s understanding of the centrality of Jefferson’s thought to the American political and educational tradition. As a central feature of the chapter, the author offers a Jeffersonian reading of Counts’s classic pamphlet, A Call to the Teachers of the Nation (1931). A Call is the chapter’s primary focus owing to its comprehensive treatment of Jefferson and his legacy. While conceding that the Jeffersonian agrarian ideal had vanished by the 1930s, the chapter articulates how Counts’ still saw in Jefferson a figure who could speak to, and perhaps guide Americans through the cataclysm of the Great Depression. The final section draws striking parallels between Jefferson’s and Counts’s image of political knowledge, neither of which, it is argued, can be construed as politically neutral.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Jefferson’s Revolutionary Theory and the Reconstruction of Educational PurposeReading George Counts’s “A Call to the Teachers of the Nation” as a Jeffersonian Text

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-45762-4
Pages
71 –86
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-45763-1_5
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[The chapter examines George Counts’s understanding of the centrality of Jefferson’s thought to the American political and educational tradition. As a central feature of the chapter, the author offers a Jeffersonian reading of Counts’s classic pamphlet, A Call to the Teachers of the Nation (1931). A Call is the chapter’s primary focus owing to its comprehensive treatment of Jefferson and his legacy. While conceding that the Jeffersonian agrarian ideal had vanished by the 1930s, the chapter articulates how Counts’ still saw in Jefferson a figure who could speak to, and perhaps guide Americans through the cataclysm of the Great Depression. The final section draws striking parallels between Jefferson’s and Counts’s image of political knowledge, neither of which, it is argued, can be construed as politically neutral.]

Published: May 28, 2020

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