Crocco & Davis 
Bending the Future to Their Will [EPUB ebook] 
Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy

This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives of eleven women educators and social activists Jane Addams, Mary Sheldon Barnes, Mary Ritter Beard, Rachel Davis Du Bois, Hazel Hertzberg, Alice Miel, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Bessie Pierce, Lucy Maynard Salmon, Hilda Taba, and Marion Thompson Wrightconcerned over the last century with issues of difference in schools and society.This volumes reconstruction of hidden history reveals the importance of these women to contemporary debate about gender, pluralism, and education in a democracy. Characterized by views of education that were constructivist, customized, and transformative, their lives and ideas present an alternative model to dominant conceptualizations of educationone sensitive to the demands of pluralism within civil education long before the present-day debates about multiculturalism.