Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ556223
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Publication Date: 1997
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In the Irish Tradition: Pre-Revolutionary Academies in America.
Nybakken, Elizabeth
History of Education Quarterly, v37 n2 p163-83 Sum 1997
Argues that many of the colonial religious and political leaders received their advanced schooling in small academies created and run by schoolmasters trained in Ireland and Scotland. Traces the dissemination of Scots-Irish Enlightenment ideas from these academies through their counterparts in colonial America. (MJP)
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Colonial History (United States), Educational Environment, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, International Educational Exchange, Outcomes of Education, Religious Factors, Role of Education, Theological Education, United States History
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland; United Kingdom (Scotland)
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