Spaces of Education: Pedagogical Writing and Social Practice in the Age of American Romanticism

本项目研究浪漫主义时代的美国教育学著作。讨论这些教育文本如何在制度化和习惯化的实践背景下谈判浪漫主义理想，该项目旨在为文学社会学领域做出贡献。在专题讨论的体裁将包括拼写词典，纲领性和哲学著作，并说明学校记录。这些作品出现在特定的教育实验的背景下。其中包括苏珊娜·罗森的妇女学院，玛格丽特·富勒和伊丽莎白·帕尔默·皮博迪的对话圈，以及阿莫斯·布朗森·奥尔科特的圣殿学校和莉迪亚·玛丽亚·蔡尔德对妇女权利和废奴主义的参与。这些著作在一个既定的知识领域中流传，在这个领域中，教育规范是根据习惯化的规范和做法进行谈判的。同时，这些著述也着眼于一个更大的政治改革工程。从罗森的拼写词典到奥尔科特的教学著作，再到布鲁克农场社区的作品，这些作品总是勾勒出教育的替代空间，这些空间应该以一种更普遍地影响社会结构的方式改变教育领域。知识领域的定位与社会改革之间的这种联系在弗雷德里克·道格拉斯的文学叙事中表现得最为明显，他通过将教育理念转化为对自由的政治诉求，延续了这一传统。

This project studies American pedagogical writings in the age of Romanticism. Discussing how these educational texts negotiated Romantic ideals in the context of institutionalized and habitualized practices, the project seeks to contribute to the field of the sociology of literature. The genres discussed in the monograph will include spelling dictionaries, programmatic and philosophical writings, and illustrated school records. These writings emerge in the context of particular educational experiments. These include Susanna Rowson's academies for women, Margaret Fuller's and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's conversational circles, as well as Amos Bronson Alcott's Temple School and Lydia Maria Child's engagement for women's rights and abolitionism. The writings circulate in an established intellectual field, within which educational norms are negotiated with regard to habitualized norms and practices. At the same time, these writings also aim at a larger political reform project. From Rowson's Spelling Dictionary to Alcott's pedagogical writings to the writings produced in the context of the Brook Farm community, these writings always sketch alternative spaces of education that are supposed to change the field of education in a way that also affects social structures more generally. This connection between positioning in the intellectual field and social reform is most clearly evident in Frederick Douglass's literacy narratives, which continue this tradition by translating the idea of education into a political claim for freedom.