American education, democracy, and the Second World War / Charles Dorn.

1st ed.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War examines how U.S. educational institutions during World War II responded to the dilemma of whether to serve as ₃weapons₄ in the nation's arsenal of democracy or ₃citadels₄ in safeguarding the American way of life. By studying the lives of wartime Americans, as well as nursery schools, elementary and secondary schools, and universities, Charles Dorn makes the case that although wartime pressures affected educational institutions to varying degrees, these institutions resisted efforts to be placed solely in service of the nation's war machine. Instead, Dorn argues, American education maintained a sturdy commitment to fostering civic mindedness in a society characterized by rapid technological advance and the perception of an ever-increasing threat to national security.

Palgrave social & cultural studies collection 2007.

Print version: Dorn, Charles M. American education, democracy, and the Second World War. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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April 19, 2018

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-249) and index.

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