The Arthurdale Community School

Author : Sam F. StackJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813166896

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The Arthurdale Community School by Sam F. StackJr. Pdf

The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement was the school, which was established to improve the curriculum offered to Appalachian students. Offering displaced and unemployed coal miners and their families new opportunities, the school also helped those in need to develop a sense of dignity during the Great Depression. The first book-length study of the well-known educational experiment, The Arthurdale Community School illuminates the institution's history, influence, and impact. Founded on American philosopher and reformer John Dewey's idea that learning should be based not on competition but on community, and informed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's guidance, the Arthurdale project sought to enable both children and adults to regain a sense of identity and place by studying the history and culture of Appalachia. Its goal was not to produce workers for global capitalism but to provide citizens with the tools to participate in a democracy. Author Sam F. Stack Jr. examines both the successes and failures of this famous progressive experiment, providing an in-depth analysis of the Arthurdale School's legacy. A fascinating study of innovation and reform in Appalachia, Stack's book also investigates how this project's community model may offer insights into the challenges facing schools today.

Author : Sam F. Stack
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813166902

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The Arthurdale Community School by Sam F. Stack Pdf

This work examines the Arthurdale School, which was created during the Great Depression and dedicated to the purpose of building community and preparing students for participation in democratic society.

Author : Jan Rosenberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031456268

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The Arthurdale School by Jan Rosenberg Pdf

This book chronicles the school envisioned by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1933 to serve Arthurdale, the New Deal government-created community in north-central West Virginia. Arthurdale was founded to house unemployed miners and their families and provide them with opportunities to receive healthcare and obtain gainful employment. Roosevelt had a particular interest in the education of children, feeling that education and social life were profoundly intertwined within a community. With that in mind, in 1934, she hired Elsie Ripley Clapp—an educator and leader in the Progressive Education movement—to design and implement the school, as well as oversee the social life of Arthurdale as a whole. In addition to covering the Arthurdale School's birth, life, and dissolution, Rosenberg discusses how the lessons of the school might serve the culture of education today, especially as an element of a comprehensive approach to community revitalization.

Author : Elsie Ripley Clapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Communities
ISBN : UOM:39015020632637

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Community Schools in Action by Elsie Ripley Clapp Pdf

Author : United States. Resettlement Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924012996165

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Arthurdale by United States. Resettlement Administration Pdf

Author : Michael C. Johanek,John L. Puckett
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1592135218

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Leonard Covello and the Making of Benjamin Franklin High School by Michael C. Johanek,John L. Puckett Pdf

What is the mission of American public education? As a nation, are we still committed to educating students to be both workers and citizens, as we have long proclaimed, or have we lost sight of the second goal of encouraging students to be contributing members of a democratic society? In this enlightening book, John Puckett and Michael Johanek describe one of America's most notable experiments in "community education." In the process, they offer a richly contextualized history of twentieth-century efforts to educate students as community-minded citizens. Although student test scores now serve to measure schools' achievements, the authors argue compellingly that the democratic goals of citizen-centered community schools can be reconciled with the academic performance demands of contemporary school reform movements. Using the twenty-year history of community-centered schooling at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem as a case study-and reminding us of the pioneering vision of its founder, Leonard Covello-they suggest new approaches for educating today's students to be better "public citizens."

Author : A. Sadovnik,S. Semel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137054753

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Founding Mothers and Others by A. Sadovnik,S. Semel Pdf

Interest in progressive education and feminist pedagogy has gained a significant following in current educational reform circles. Founding Mothers and Others examines the female founders of progressive schools and other female educational leaders in the early twentieth century and their schools or educational movements. All of the women led remarkable lives and their legacies are embedded in education today. The book examines the lessons to be learned from their work and their lives. The book also analyzes whether their leadership styles support contemporary feminist theories of leadership that argue women administrators tend to be more inclusive, democratic, and caring than male administrators. Through an examination of these women, this book looks critically at the ways in which the leaders' administrative styles and behaviors lend support to feminist claims.

Author : Nicholas V. Longo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791479605

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Why Community Matters by Nicholas V. Longo Pdf

Providing a new perspective on the undeniable relationship between education reform and democratic revitalization, Nicholas V. Longo uncovers and examines practical models in which communities play an essential role in teaching the art of democracy.

Author : J. Richardson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230101562

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The Full-Service Community School Movement by J. Richardson Pdf

This book contributes in multiple dimensions to the educational literature through an articulation of T.J. and Anita Anderson's vision; how the community and faculty adopted the vision; what it meant in practical terms to matriculating students and their families; and, espouses lessons applicable in the 21st Century.

Author : West Virginia University. College of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032096278

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Report of the Survey of Arthurdale School by West Virginia University. College of Education Pdf

Author : Sam F. Stack
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820468428

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Elsie Ripley Clapp (1879-1965) by Sam F. Stack Pdf

This biography chronicles the life and teaching practices of Elsie Ripley Clapp, one of the most significant female leaders in progressive education. Clapp's greatest contribution to American education is the community school, a place for self-realization, caring, cooperation, and cultural enrichment as well as the cornerstone of democratic society. Challenging the practices of contemporary education in her era, she envisioned pedagogy as the integration of living and learning, building upon local resources and the experiences of students and their community. Learning was more than training or the acquisition of knowledge, it was a form of communal sharing. Agreeing with her mentor John Dewey, a true education was more of a journey than arrival at a specific destination. This book explores Clapp's personal journey, her triumphs and her failures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Community organization
ISBN : IND:30000090123849

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Rural Community Organization by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130624153

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Library List by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Encarna Rodríguez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812874900

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Pedagogies and Curriculums to (Re)imagine Public Education by Encarna Rodríguez Pdf

This book discusses current market-based educational discourses and how they have undermined the notion of “the public” in public education by allowing private visions of education to define the public democratic imagination. Against this discouraging background, this text embraces Freire’s understanding of hope as an ontological need and calls for finding new public grounds for our public imagination. It further articulates Freire’s mandate to unveil historically concrete practices to sustain democratic educational visions, no matter how difficult this task may be, by (1) presenting an indepth description of the pedagogies and curriculums of eleven schools across historical and geographical locations that have worked or are still working with disenfranchised communities and that have publicly hoped for a better future for their students, and by (2) reflecting on how the stories of these schools offer us new opportunities to rethink our own pedagogical commitment to public visions of education. To promote this reflection, this book offers the notion of publicly imagined public education as a conceptual tool to help understand the historical and discursive specificity of schools’ hopes and to (re)claim public schools as legitimate sites of public imagination.

Author : Shirley Ohles,Frederik Ohles,John Ramsay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313005008

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Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators by Shirley Ohles,Frederik Ohles,John Ramsay Pdf

Widely praised, Greenwood's Biographical Dictionary of American Educators (Greenwood, 1978) quickly became a standard reference work for students and scholars of American education. This new volume includes biographical sketches of more than 400 notable researchers, leaders, reformers, critics, and practitioners from all major fields of education and extends the coverage of its predecessor to the mid-20th century. Its topical range encompasses such diverse areas as psychology, music, health, measurement and evaluation, science, special education, history, and administration. It treats education at all levels, including early childhood, elementary and secondary, higher, and adult. Most of the educators profiled were active in the 20th century, but several dozen have been included from the 19th century. A special effort has been made to include women and educators of color whose contributions have often been overlooked in the past. Each biographical sketch includes information on family background, a description of the educator's accomplishments, and a digest of the person's education and career, professional and civic service, major publications, and principal honors. Each profile ends with a list of references, and the volume closes with appendices listing birth places, states of major service, fields of work, a chronological listing of educators, and a list of important dates in American education. A comprehensive index concludes the volume. Educators are included from all fifty states and were selected from numerous suggested candidates for inclusion. Most of the educators profiled were active in the 20th century, but several dozen have been included from the 19th century. A special effort has been made to include women and educators of color whose contributions have often been overlooked in the past.