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Herbartianism Comes to America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Harold B. Dunkel
Harold B. Dunkel*
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American Herbartianism was to an astonishing degree the creation of three men, all of whom were connected with the Illinois State Normal University: Charles DeGarmo, Charles McMurry, and Frank McMurry. Though they were aided and abetted in very important ways both by other American members of the movement and by various distinguished educators who were never card-carrying Herbartians, any account of American Herbartianism must focus primarily on these three, for they were both its theoretical proponents and its practical agitators.

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The Transit of Educational Theory II
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , Summer 1969 , pp. 202 - 233
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Copyright © 1969 by New York University 

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