The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 17: Education - Hardcover
Offering a broad, up-to-date reference to the long history and cultural legacy of education in the American South, this timely volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys educational developments, practices, institutions, and politics from the colonial era to the present. With over 130 articles, this book covers key topics in education, including academic freedom; the effects of urbanization on segregation, desegregation, and resegregation; African American and women's education; and illiteracy. These entries, as well as articles on prominent educators, such as Booker T. Washington and C. Vann Woodward, and major southern universities, colleges, and trade schools, provide an essential context for understanding the debates and battles that remain deeply imbedded in southern education. Framed by Clarence Mohr's historically rich introductory overview, the essays in this volume comprise a greatly expanded and thoroughly updated survey of the shifting southern education landscape and its development over the span of four centuries.
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"This extremely valuable volume is by far the most comprehensive overview of southern education that we have. It provides a rich treatment of educational topics and themes that will define the field for further study."--Thomas G. Dyer, University of Georgia
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Offering a broad, up-to-date reference to the long history and cultural legacy of education in the American South, this timely volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, with over 130 articles, surveys educational developments, practices, institutions, and politics from the colonial era to the present.
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- PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0807834912
- ISBN 13 9780807834916
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
- EditorMohr Clarence L.
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