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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Education, History of"”.
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Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939 - 1984
… schools. It specifically examines evidence of student engagement and the attainment gap in Topeka High School. An examination of relevant academic literature, an examination of yearbooks, interviews with alumni, and an evaluation of school demographic and graduation rate records were methods …
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From Social Welfare to Social Work, the Broad View versus the Narrow View
This dissertation looks back through the lens of a conflict that emerged during the development of social work education in Alberta, and captured by a dispute about the name of the school. The difference of a single word – welfare versus work – led through selected events in the history of social …
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The History of the Western Illinois University Band From 1904--1942, and Its Evolution From Within the Illinois Normal School Movement
The purpose of this study was to examine and report the history of Western Illinois University band from 1904-42, and its evolution from within the Illinois normal school movement. Following a brief historical review of the common and normal school's development in the eastern United States, the …
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Lennie Tristano (1919--1978): His Life, Music, and Teaching
"As the first musicological treatment of Tristano, this dissertation re-evaluates Tristano's position in jazz history and addresses problems of the current tendency toward the canonization of jazz, in which he is misleadingly labeled as a ""cool"" jazz musician. The research methods combine oral …
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History of the Baccalaureat: A Study of the Interaction Between Educational Legislation, Government Policy, and Language Theory in the National Language Examination
… national examination to complete secondary education and determine admission to higher education. In my dissertation I will discuss the development of the Baccalaureat and use the methodology of ""reverse engineering"" to analyze how the language portions of the examination reflect changes …
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A History of the Bands at Ohio University, Athens
… played a major role in the development of the music education division, often teaching the majority of instrumental music education courses within the School of Music. This close association with music students had an overwhelmingly positive effect on the student/mentor relationship of …
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An Historical Case Study on the Illinois Articulation Initiative
The purpose of this case study was to gain understanding, from an historical perspective, of the Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI), a statewide policy on the transfer and articulation of college courses. Specifically, this research was designed to describe the IAI policy, explain the social, …
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Development of School Bands in Illinois: 1863--1930
… this study. Information includes the histories of individual school bands, the origin and influence of the Illinois School Band Association on the band movement, and conclusions relating practices and traditions of early bands to those in contemporary education.
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'I Am Only One, but I Am One': *Southern African -American Women Schoolteachers, 1884--1954
… innovative methods to relieve the conditions of an inadequate educational system and in the process made enormous contributions to their communities at large. Yet, their efforts met with indifference not only among contemporary whites but also among noted historians. The role of …
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Advancing Scholarship in Wartime: The World War I Research Experience and Its Impact on American Higher Education, 1900-1925
Despite the historical significance of wartime science for the academy, historians have largely overlooked the subject. This dissertation corrects this oversight, filling a void in World War I historiography. It analyzes how American universities, represented by a select list of representative …
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School, Community, and State Integration in Nineteenth Century Japan
The remaining three chapters of this dissertation focus on the consolidation of the Meiji education system. This was a hegemonic endeavor, in which the Meiji government sought, through rhetoric, institutions, laws, rituals, and administrative routines, to marginalize pre-Meiji educational …
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Freedom Through Books: Helen Haines and Her Role in the Library Press, Library Education, and the Intellectual Freedom Movement
This dissertation examines the life of Helen E. Haines (1872-1961) based on her voluminous personal correspondence and papers (Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley), the Richard Rogers Bowker papers (New York Public Library), and, among others, the American Library Association …
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Unpacking Child -Centeredness: A History of Meanings
This study examines the historical development of the term child-centered in the discourse of early schooling in America. My discussion begins with the founder of the kindergarten, Friedrich Froebel, and traces the development of the kindergarten in the America until the 1930s. I explore how …
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On Education and Social Power: The Educational Theories of W.E.B. Du Bois and Their Relevance to African -Centered Education
W.E.B. Du Bois offered an educational theory that sought to contextualize the role of schools and their relevance to social justice. Responding to the social-historical malaise of African American subordination, he proposed that schools could provide the impetus towards cultural, economic, and …
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Brincamos El Charco Y Ahora Que: Historicizing Puerto Rican Education in Chicago, 1967--1977
… serves as a historical and cultural analysis of the educational experiences of Puerto Ricans in Chicago following the Division Street Riot of 1966 till 1977, chronicling the ways in which the racialization of Puerto Ricans in Chicago has resulted in schooling inequalities, forcing community …
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A History of Disadvantaged Student Education in Illinois: A Critical Inquiry of Adult Education at a Public Comprehensive Community College, 1976--1996
… spans the years 1976--1996. The focus was the educational programs for disadvantaged students in the state of Illinois, particularly at Parkland College, a comprehensive community college. The evidentiary base included traditional sources of verifiable documentation like course curriculums, …
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Doorway to the Competitions of Life: African American Citizenship and Access to Higher Education
Legal developments of the 1950s and 1960s such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Civil Rights Act (1964) relied heavily on the Reconstruction Amendments to launch a revised attack on segregation and racial discrimination producing only limited success. However, more recent court cases …
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The Political Forces Behind the Creation of and Subsequent Changes to the Teacher Tenure Law in Illinois
… the political forces behind the creation of the teacher tenure law in Illinois in 1941. The study is a historical analysis that focuses on the forces behind each of the major subsequent changes in 1975, 1985, and 1997. The major findings of the study include that teacher tenure in many …
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An Examination of Radical Critics of American Education, 1965 to 1985
… to 1988 there emerged and proliferated a trend of historical revisionism which reexamined the relationship schooling had with the dynamics of the market society. The key authors utilized a social-organizational perspective for their analysis with few recommendations or suggestions on how to …
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La Politica Linguistica Y Educacional en El Ecuador. (Spanish Text)
Este estudio describe la pol(')itica lingu(')istica y educacional en el Ecuador, desde la epoca colonial hasta la epoca presente de los grupos ind(')igenas han sido discriminados, segregados y marginados en terminos pol(')iticos, educacionales, lingu(')isticos, sociales y econom-icos. Los gobiernos …
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