Intercultural Education, Folklore, and the Pedagogical Thought of Rachel Davis DuBois

• Main Author: Rosenberg, Jan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Education-History.; Cultural studies.; Theater.; Art education.; History of Education.; Cultural Studies.; Theatre and Performance Studies.; Creativity and Arts Education.

This book provides a history of the Quaker educator and intercultural education pioneer Rachel Davis DuBois (1892-1993) that explores the period in which DuBois lived and the key works she created. The opening section establishes the disciplinary contexts of her work, education, and folklore, and th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Snap Shots: Discovering Rachel and Fields that Relate to Her Thinking
• 3. Early Childhood, Early Schooling, and Exposure to Cultural Diversity (1895-1910)
• 4. College, Marriage, Work, and the Birth of a Concern (1910-1924)
• 5. Development of Programs and a Career in Intercultural Education: The Assembly (1924-1929)
• 6. Graduate School and the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education (1929-1940)
• 7. The Great Segue of 1941 and the Refreshment of Rachel's Concern
• 8. Closing Doors, Opening Anew: The Creation and Work of the Workshop for Cultural Democracy, the Parranda, and Facing Joseph McCarthy (1941-1953)
• 9. Conclusions: The Past is Prologue
• Notes for Understanding Folklore and Education Considering the Pedagogy of Rachel Davis DuBois.