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Author:   E. Thomas Ewing ,  David Hicks ,  Susan F Semel ,  Alan R Sadovnik (Rutgers University, USA)
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   illustrated edition
Volume:   46
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9780820471433

ISBN 10:   0820471437
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   11 July 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: E. Thomas Ewing/David Hicks: Introduction: Education in the Great Depression - John F. Lyons: Regional Variations in Union Activism of American Public Schoolteachers - E. Thomas Ewing: The Virtues of Planning: American Educators Look at Soviet Schools - Michele Cohen: Civilization: Its Rise and Fall in New Deal School Murals - Charles Lansing: The Great Depression, German Teachers, and Nazi Revolution in the Schools - Regennia N. Williams: Reading, Writing, and Racial Uplift: Education and Reform in Cleveland, Ohio - Edward Janak: Caught in a Tangled Skein: The Great Depression in South Carolina's Schools - Carol Mutch: The Sugarbag Years: Politics and Education Intersect in New Zealand - Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.: One-Room and Country Schools Depicted in Farm Security Administration Photographs - Barak A. Salmoni: The Pedagogy of Work and Thrift: Economic Intentionality as Turkish Educational Priority - Kristen D. Nawrotzki: Shall the Youngest Suffer Most? U.S. Kindergartens in the Depression - Alberto Gawryszewski/Michael L. Conniff: Progressive Schools for a Democratic Society: Reforming Education in Rio de Janeiro - David Hicks/Stephanie Van Hover: A Magnificent Adventure: Negotiating and Structuring Curricular Change in Virginia - Amy J. Johnson: Encouraging Education, Increasing Income: The al-Manayil Village and Rural Education in Egypt - E. Thomas Ewing/David Hicks: Afterword: Lessons from a Global History.

Reviews

« This is a provocative collection of studies of educational responses to economic crisis, examined through both regional and global frameworks. It is a valuable contribution to both American and comparative studies of the Great Depression. -- Kate Rousmaniere

Author Information

The Editors: E. Thomas Ewing received his Ph.D. in modern Russian history from the University of Michigan. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech, and he is the author of The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools of the 1930s (Lang, 2002) and editor of Revolution and Pedagogy (2005). David Hicks received his M.A. in history from the State University of New York at Cortland and his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction (history and social science education) from Virginia Tech. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Education at Virginia Tech, and he has published extensively on teaching the social studies.

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