The Americanization Syndrome (1987) examines the historical role of
education in the process of 'Americanization'. It argues that
beginning with seventeenth century puritan leaders such as John
Winthrop and Cotton Maher, the pattern of American education has
been not the promotion of a blend of different cultures but the
indoctrination of norms of belief of religion, politics and
economics and an explicit discouragement of cultural variety. It
traces the political role of education at key junctures of American
history - after Independence, in the reconstruction of the South
after the Civil War, in the establishment of settlement houses and
the use of scientific management techniques by employers. The
author focuses on the period 1900-1925 when new waves of immigrants
from southern and eastern Europe led to a new drive for orthodoxy.
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