Improved Reflections: American Magazines, Higher Education, and the Construction of a Middle-Class Male Identity through European Comparisons, 1890-1915

Autor/in	Clark, Daniel
Titel	Improved Reflections: American Magazines, Higher Education, and the Construction of a Middle-Class Male Identity through European Comparisons, 1890-1915
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 37 (2010) 2, S.273-290 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
ISBN	978-1-6173-5102-0
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Mass Media Role; Success; Values; Comparative Education; Males; Middle Class Culture; Periodicals; Mass Media Effects; Student Experience; College Environment; Role of Education; Educational History; Masculinity; Self Concept; Educational Policy; Germany; United Kingdom; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Erfolg; Wertbegriff; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Studienerfahrung; Hochschulumwelt; Bildungsauftrag; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Männlichkeit; Selbstkonzept; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Deutschland; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	Historians of American education readily acknowledge that in the mid-19th century the German university and academic ideal rose in prominence among American academicians, who then worked diligently to replicate the German university model in the United States. During this same time, however, many more Americans were exposed to a different conception of higher education, one that arguably impacted perceptions of the college experience as much or more than models of German scholarship. "Tom Brown's School Days," followed shortly by "Tom Brown at Oxford," became widely popular readings for American youth in the late 19th century. The books chronicled the educational and athletic exploits of Tom Brown as he rose from the fields of Rugby through Oxford. It spawned several American imitators far more popular than Brown. First Frank Merriwell in the 1890s and then Dink Stover in the new century, planting a firm idea of what the ideal manly college experience in America could be. Examining how American magazines used comparisons to foreign higher education provides an exceptional window for illuminating the broader phenomenon of how the mass media in the United States constructed the unique vision of the middle-class man and the college experience, integrating the two meaningfully for the first time. The author discusses the role that magazines play in shaping not only the place of higher education in American life, but also in forging a new ideal of success for middle-class American men in an emerging corporate age. (Contains 4 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10