The Arthurdale School: Cultural Intervention Through Rural Folklife Education in a Progressive New Deal Setting - Hardback

This book chronicles the school envisioned by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1933 to serve Arthurdale, the New Deal government-created community in north-central West Virginia. Arthurdale was founded to house unemployed miners and their families and provide them with opportunities to receive healthcare and obtain gainful employment. Roosevelt had a particular interest in the education of children, feeling that education and social life were profoundly intertwined within a community. With that in mind, in 1934, she hired Elsie Ripley Clapp--an educator and leader in the Progressive Education movement--to design and implement the school, as well as oversee the social life of Arthurdale as a whole. In addition to covering the Arthurdale School's birth, life, and dissolution, Rosenberg discusses how the lessons of the school might serve the culture of education today, especially as an element of a comprehensive approach to community revitalization.

• | Author: Jan Rosenberg
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Dec 30, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 118 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 3031456254
• | ISBN-13: 9783031456251