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Country School Memories An Oral History of One-Room Schooling
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Book Code: GM0919
ISBN: 0-313-30919-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30919-9
168 pages, photographs, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/1999
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Education
Series Number: 74
Reviews:
  • [T]here are different lessons here that are not in other books.
    —History of Education Quarterly
  • Endorsement From Maxine Greene
    Professor Emeritus
    Teachers College, Columbia University:
    In the interviews with people who remember the one-room rural school, there are lovely nuggets of a retrieved reality: experiences of language learning... instances of cultural diversity...multi-age teaching...rapport with the teacher...the games people played...the songs sung...experiences mentoring relived....Something about the interviews with those who remember sheds light on dimensions of our past and provides new lenses through which we can see new developments ahead.
  • Endorsement From Alden J. Moe
    University Service Professor of Education:
    The authors share memories of former teachers who take us back to a time when the fields and streams and swamps were a part of the learning environment. Where the names of wildflowers were important and where inkwells provided diversion for creative students. This book by Leight and Rinehart will entertain and inform; they have done a great job!
Description: Small isolated country schools were the major educational institution in rural America for more than two hundred fifty years until they were replaced by consolidated schools by the second half of the twentieth century. Country School Memories uses the techniques of oral history to capture ehe insights of forty-seven individuals who had participated in the one-room school experience as teachers or students during the period from 1900-1955. Beginning with an overview of rural education during the twentieth century, the authors analyze the distinctive pedagogy of rural schoolteachers, the character of the teachers, and the culture of the schools. They discuss the school consolidation movement that ended the reign of one-room schoolhouses and draw conclusions about lessons that can be learned by contemporary educators from old-time schools.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The One-Room, One-Teacher School
  • Seven Oral Histories
  • Teaching and Learning in the One-Room School
  • Schoolhouse Memories
  • Lessons Learned from the One-Room School
  • Appendix: Persons Interviewed
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 98-41417
LCC Class: LC5147
Dewey Class: 370
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