Author: United States. War Manpower CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Final Report of the National Youth Administration, Fiscal Years 1936-1943
Author: United States. War Manpower CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Final Report of the National Youth Administration, Fiscal Years 1936-1943
Author: United States. National Youth AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Youth
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Torches of Light
Author: Ann Short ChirhartPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820324463
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
As turbulent social and economic changes swept the South in the first half of the twentieth century, education became the flashpoint. Ann Short Chirhart's study is the first to analyze such modernizing events in Georgia. She shows how these changes affected the creation of the state's public school system and cast its teachers in a crucial role as mediators between transformation and tradition. Depicting Georgia's steps toward modernity through teachers' professional and cultural work and the educational reforms they advocated, Chirhart presents a unique perspective on the convergence of voices across the state calling for reform or continuity, secularism or theology, equality or enforced norms, consumption or self-reliance. Although most teachers, black and white, shared backgrounds rooted in localism and evangelical Protestantism, attitudes about race and gender kept them apart. African American teachers, individually and collectively, redefined traditional beliefs to buttress ideals of racial uplift and to press for equal access to public services. White women adapted similar beliefs in different ways to enhance their efforts to train greater numbers of white students for professional and wage labor. Torches of Light is based on such sources as government archives, manuscript collections, and interviews with teachers. As Chirhart examines the ideas over which Georgians clashed, she also shows how those ideas were embodied in New Deal and U.S. Department of Agriculture programs, the political activities of the black Georgia Teachers and Educators Association, and the Georgia legislature's 1949 Minimum Foundation Act. Through two world wars and the Great Depression, teachers sought to reconcile clashing beliefs not only to renegotiate class, race, and gender roles but also to enhance their own professionalism and authority.
Dictionary Catalog of the National Agricultural Library, 1862-1965
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The New Deal and Beyond
Author: Elna C. GreenPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820324814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This collection of ten original studies covers a wide range of issues related to the regional distinctiveness of welfare provision in the South and the development of the larger federal welfare state. The studies examine New Deal and Great Society programs from the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps to Social Security and Medicare. In addition, they draw attention to such private-sector organizations as the Salvation Army and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Some essays look at the degree of federal responsiveness to, or actual engagement with, recipients of assistance. One such study examines the dynamics between the New Deal bureaucracy, poor women who worked in WPA-organized sewing rooms in Atlanta, and local political activists concerned about the women's working conditions. The power of race and racism to shape the delivery of social services in the region, as well as the strong connections between social welfare and civil rights, is a concern common to many studies. One study shows how linking the availability of federal Medicare funds to racial equality helped end segregation in southern hospitals. Others focus on topics ranging from the pioneering North Carolina Fund, a state program that shaped Great Society initiatives, to the public health nurses and home economists of the Farm Security Administration, to Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge's maneuverings against the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. The New Deal and Beyond is filled with many new insights into initiating and maintaining social programs in the South, a region whose welfare history is key to understanding the larger story of the American welfare state.
States of Childhood
Author: Jennifer S. LightPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work—passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks—inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of “junior republics” and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of “sheltered” childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left. Light describes the invention of junior republics as independent institutions and how they were later established at schools, on playgrounds, in housing projects, and on city streets, as public officials discovered children's role playing helped their bottom line. The junior republic movement aligned with cutting-edge developmental psychology and educational philosophy, and complemented the era's fascination with models and miniatures, shaping educational and recreational programs across the nation. Light's account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality.
Outside in
Author: Paula S. FassPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195071352
Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In this pathbreaking book, Paula S. Fass presents a wide-ranging examination of the role of "outsiders" in the creation of modern education. Through a series of in-depth and fascinating case studies, she demonstrates how issues of pluralism have shaped the educational landscape and how various minority groups have been affected by their educational experiences. This is a sweeping and highly original history of American education that helps us to understand how schools have been shaped by their students, how educational issues have merged with wider social concerns, and how outsiders have re-created schooling and culture in the 20th century.
Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Boy Scouts of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Annual Report of the Federal Security Administrator
Author: United States. Federal Security AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Cumulative Title Index to United States Public Documents, 1789-1976
Author: Sandra K. FaullPublisher: Arlington, Va. : United States Historical Documents Institute
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
