Country School Memories An Oral History of One-Room Schooling

Subjects:

• Education » Educational Foundations
• History » American History -- Nineteenth Century
• History » American History -- 1900 to 1945

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!

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