Education & the Great Depression : lessons from a global history / E. Thomas Ewing & David Hicks, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ewing, E. Thomas, 1965-

Hicks, David, 1967-

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

History of schools and schooling ; v. 46.

History of schools and schooling

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--History--20th century.

Education.

History.

Depressions--1929.

Depressions.

Physical Description:

vi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Education and the Great Depression

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction: education in the Great Depression / E. Thomas Ewing and David Hicks

Regional variations in union activism of American public schoolteachers / John F. Lyons

The "virtues of planning": American educators look at Soviet schools / E. Thomas Ewing

Civilization: its rise and fall in New Deal school murals / Michele Cohen

The Great Depression, German teachers, and Nazi revolution in the schools / Charles Lansing

Reading, writing, and racial uplift: education and reform in Cleveland, Ohio / Regennia N. Williams

"Caught in a tangled skein": the Great Depression in South Carolina's schools / Edward Janak

The sugarbag years: politics and education intersect in New Zealand / Carol Mutch

One-room country schools depicted in Farm Security Administration photographs / Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.

The pedagogy of work and thrift: economic intentionality as Turkish educational priority / Barak A. Salmoni

"Shall the youngest suffer most?": U.S. kindergartens in the Depression / Kristen D. Nawrotzki

Progressive schools for a democratic society: reforming education in Rio de Janeiro / Alberto Gawryszewski and Michael L. Conniff

"A magnificent adventure": negotiating and structuring curricular change in Virginia / David Hicks and Stephanie Van Hover

Encouraging education, increasing income: the al-Manayil village and rural education in Egypt / Amy J. Johnson

Afterword: lessons from a global history / E. Thomas Ewing and David Hicks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0820471437

OCLC:

65165403

Publisher Number:

9780820471433