Head masters: phrenology, secular education, and nineteenth-century social thought

Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced. Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology - the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character - played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal role...

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1. Verfasser: Tomlinson, Stephen (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press [2013]
Ausgabe:paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung:Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced. Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology - the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character - played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal role in the development of education. Stephen Tomlinson asserts instead that phrenology was a scientifically respectable theory of human nature, perhaps the first solid physiological psychology. He shows that the first phrenologists were among the most prominent scientists and intellectuals.
Beschreibung:Description based upon print version of record
Beschreibung:xv, 437 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits
ISBN:9780817357634