Universal Education in the South
Author | : Charles William Dabney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Charles William Dabney |
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Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : James D. Anderson |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2010-01-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807898880 |
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters. Initially, ex-slaves attempted to create an educational system that would support and extend their emancipation, but their children were pushed into a system of industrial education that presupposed black political and economic subordination. This conception of education and social order--supported by northern industrial philanthropists, some black educators, and most southern school officials--conflicted with the aspirations of ex-slaves and their descendants, resulting at the turn of the century in a bitter national debate over the purposes of black education. Because blacks lacked economic and political power, white elites were able to control the structure and content of black elementary, secondary, normal, and college education during the first third of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, blacks persisted in their struggle to develop an educational system in accordance with their own needs and desires.
Author | : Charles William Dabney |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807896457 |
Universal Education in the South: Vol. 2, The Southern Education Movement
Author | : Charles William Dabney |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807896440 |
Universal Education in the South: Vol. 1, From the Beginning to 1900
Author | : Charles William Dabney |
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Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : Charles William Dabney |
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Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Charles William Dabney |
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Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Charles William Dabney |
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Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Edgar Wallace Knight |
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Michael J. Seth |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824825348 |
In the half century after 1945, South Korea went from an impoverished, largely rural nation ruled by a succession of authoritarian regimes to a prosperous, democratic industrial society. No less impressive was the country's transformation from a nation where a majority of the population had no formal education to one with some of the world's highest rates of literacy, high school graduates, and university students. Drawing on their premodern and colonial heritages as well as American education concepts, South Koreans have been largely successful in creating a schooling system that is comprehensive, uniform in standard, and universal. The key to understanding this educational transformation is South Korean society's striking, nearly universal preoccupation with schooling-what Korean's themselves call their "education fever." This volume explains how Koreans' concern for achieving as much formal education as possible appeared immediately before 1945 and quickly embraced every sector of society. Through interviews with teachers, officials, parents, and students and an examination of a wide range of written materials in both Korean and English, Michael Seth explores the reasons for this social demand for education and how it has shaped nearly every aspect of South Korean society. He also looks at the many problems of the Korean educational system: the focus on entrance examinations, which has tended to reduce education to test preparation; the overheated competition to enter prestige schools; the enormous financial burden placed on families for costly private tutoring; the inflexibility created by an emphasis on uniformity of standards; and the misuse of education by successive governments for political purposes.