The Arthurdale Community School (eBook)

Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia

Sam F. Stack (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
220 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6689-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Sam F. Stack Jr. is professor of social and cultural foundations at West Virginia University. He is the author of Elsie Ripley Clapp (1879–1965): Her Life and the Community School and coauthor of Teachers, Leaders, and Schools: Essays by John Dewey, which won the 2012 American Educational Studies Critics Choice Award.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Progressive Education and the Depression
2. Back to the Land and the Arthurdale School
3. Elsie Ripley Clapp and the Arthurdale School
4. Beginning a Community School
5. The Struggle to Survive
6. From Community School to Traditional
7. The End of a Dream?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: american education system • appalachian literacy • Arthurdale • coal industry • Community • Democracy • educational ethics • Educational Philosophy • education in appalachia • education practices • Eleanor Roosevelt • FDR • First Lady • Franklin Roosevelt • history of education • John Dewey • New Deal • Pedagogy • Progressive education • rural education • subsistence homestead
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-6689-6 / 0813166896
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6689-6 / 9780813166896