Intercultural Education, Folklore, and the Pedagogical Thought of Rachel Davis DuBois
Intercultural Education, Folklore, and the Pedagogical Thought of Rachel Davis DuBois

Author: Jan Rosenberg

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 3030262227

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This book provides a history of the Quaker educator and intercultural education pioneer Rachel Davis DuBois (1892-1993) that explores the period in which DuBois lived and the key works she created. The opening section establishes the disciplinary contexts of her work, education, and folklore, and the subsequent sections present DuBois' pedagogical methods as they were developed and exemplified by her programs. Throughout the narrative, Rosenberg includes reflections on her own experience as a practitioner of the intercultural and folklife education DuBois championed.

New Deal Radio
New Deal Radio

Author: David Goodman

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-05-13

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1978817487

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New Deal Radio examines the federal government's involvement in broadcasting during the New Deal period, looking at the U.S. Office of Education's Educational Radio Project. The fact that the United States never developed a national public broadcaster, has remained a central problem of US broadcasting history. Rather than ponder what might have been, authors Joy Hayes and David Goodman look at what did happen. There was in fact a great deal of government involvement in broadcasting in the US before 1945 at local, state, and federal levels. Among the federal agencies on the air were the Department of Agriculture, the National Park Service, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Theatre Project. Contextualizing the different series aired by the Educational Radio Project as part of a unified project about radio and citizenship is crucial to understanding them. New Deal Radio argues that this distinctive government commercial partnership amounted to a critical intervention in US broadcasting and an important chapter in the evolution of public radio in America.

The Arthurdale School
The Arthurdale School

Author: Jan Rosenberg

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-12-29

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 3031456262

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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.

A History of Folk Music Festivals in the United States
A History of Folk Music Festivals in the United States

Author: Ronald D. Cohen

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780810862029

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This book presents a history of folk music festivals in the United States, beginning in the 19th century and ending in the early 21st century. The focus is on the proliferation and diversity of festivals in the 20th century.