The History of Education Society

2000 Annual Meeting

 

19-22 October 2000

 

 

Holiday Inn – Market Square

San Antonio, Texas

 

 

 

David Adams, Cleveland State University

Derrick Alridge, University of Georgia

Barbara Beatty, Wellesley College

Linda Eisenmann, University of Massachusetts, Boston

John M. Heffron, Soka University of America

Craig Kridel, University of South Carolina

Valinda Littlefield, University of South Carolina

Gary McCulloch, University of Sheffield

Kathleen Murphey, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Jana Nidiffer, University of Michigan

Thomas O'Brien, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Yoon Pak, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Theresa Richardson, University of South Florida

Alan Sadovnik, Adelphi University

Carol Trone, University of Wisconsin

 

 

 

Thursday, 19 October

 

Registration

 

Executive Council Meeting, Board Room

 

 

 

Friday, 20 October

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.:

     Registration

     Book Exhibit

 

Friday, 8:30 to 9:45: Concurrent Sessions


 

Science, Scientists, and Education 

 

Chair: John Rury, The Spencer Foundation

 

Andrew Dickson White and Alexander Winchell: Competing Perspectives on Science and Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century Academy

Jeffrey P. Bouman, University of Michigan

 

The Use of Skinnerian Teaching Machines and Programmed Instruction in U.S. Schools During 1960-1970

Martha Casas, University of Texas of the Permian Basin

 


Above All, Science: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science, and Art

Susan R. Richardson, Pennsylvania State University

 

On the Portability of Technique: The Military Context of Cold War Curriculum Reform --- from Project TROY to PSSC

John L. Rudolph, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Comment: Audience

 

 

 


Elements of the American Dilemma in Mid‑Century Education

 

Chair: Jim Green, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

The Whiteness of Desegregation: Race, Gender and Social Class at Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957-1959

Phoebe Godfrey, New York, NY

 

Southern Liberalism and the Making of An American Dilemma: Jackson Davis of the GEB, Gunnar Myrdal, the “Negro Problem” in America

Jennings L. Wagoner, University of Virginia

 

The RILEEH Program: The University of Iowa's Role in the Southern Freedom Struggle, 1963-69

Richard M. Breaux, University of Iowa

 

Discussant: Anne Ellen Phillips, School District of Philadelphia

 

 

Educating the Next Generation: Women Professionals as Role Models in Twentieth Century America

 

Chair and Discussant: Linda M. Perkins, Hunter College


 
Academic Women and Professional Power: Passing the Torch

Mary Ann Dzuback, Washington University

 

Private Life and Public Voice: Dorothy Thompson Talks to Her Readers about Gender and Society

Lynn D. Gordon, University of Rochester

 

 

Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.: Special Interest Session

 

Junior Colleges

 

Host: Bruce Leslie, SUNY, Brockport

 

Protecting and Strengthening the Dream: California Junior Colleges During the Great Depression

Edward A. Gallagher, Oakland Community College

 

 

Friday, 10:45 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.: Special Interest Session

 

American Thought and German Emigrant Theorists

 

Host: James C. Albisetti, University of Kentucky

 

The Influence of American Thought on Two Educational Theorists Who Emigrated to the USA During National Socialism in Germany, 1933‑1945

Anja‑Silvia Goeing, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg

 

 

Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 11: 15 a.m.: Concurrent Sessions

 

Autonomy and Participation: University Reform in France and Puerto Rico

 

Chair and Discussant: Julie Reuben, Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

French University Reform After 1968: The Case of Vincennes

Hanley Cocks, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

The Role of Students in the Reforming of Public Higher Education in Puerto Rico (1955-1966)

Silvia E. Rabionet, Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

 

Resistance in the Asian American Educational Context

 

Chair:  Edward R. Beauchamp, University of Hawai’i

 

Silencing through Ideological Control: Chinese Students in American Higher Education and Their Roles in Chinese American Communities, 1908-1954

Carol Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Everyday Legal Forms of Resistance and Injustice

Sieglinde Lim de Sanchez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Loyalty as Resistance: Nisei Students’ Response on the Eve of Their Incarceration

Yoon K. Pak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Discussant:  Eileen H. Tamura, University of Hawai’i

 

 


Critical Reflections and Scholarly Assessments: Three Historians Respond to the Recent Scholarship on Deans of Women

   

Chair: Christine Ogren, University of Iowa

 

Scholar/Critics:

Amy Thompson McCandless, College of Charleston

Linda Eisenmann, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Bruce Leslie, SUNY, Brockport

 

Works Discussed:

Pioneering Deans of Women: More than Wise and Pious Matrons

    Jana Nidiffer, University of Michigan

 

Stalwart Women: A Historical Analysis of Deans of Women in the South

    Carolyn Bashaw, Le Moyne College

 

   

 

 

Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.: Special Interest Session

 

Conflicts in Frontier Schools

 

Host: David Adams, Cleveland State University

 

“The School Is Under My Direction”: The Politics of Education at Fort Vancouver

Stephen Woolworth, Tacoma, Washington

 

 

Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions

 

Freedom of Thought in American Higher Education: Historical Perspectives  

 

Chair: James C. Carper, University of South Carolina

 

Freedom of Thought at the University of Virginia, 1835-1853.

Alex J. Angelo, Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

Student Political Freedoms in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of the Harvard Men’s League for Woman Sufferage

Carrie Daniels, Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

Griswold and the Fifth Amendment during McCarthyism

Jennifer Delaney, Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

Discussant: Sarah Barnes, Boulder, Colorado

 

 

The Joys of Self-Improvement: Women's Dedication to Education in Antebellum America

 

Chair: Sally Schwager, Harvard University

 

“Thirsting for the Pure Waters of Knowledge”: Women's Desires for Education in the Antebellum Era

Margaret Nash, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

“Endeavor to Improve Myself”: The Education of White Women in the Antebellum South

Kathryn L. Walbert, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Discussant: Nancy Beadie, University of Washington

New Research on Education in Colonial America  

 

Chair: Jennings L. Wagoner, University of Virginia

 

Radical Experiment and the Search for Order: German Immigrant Education in Colonial Pennsylvania

Amy Schutt, Colgate University

 

For What Reasons Charity? Financial Aid in Colonial American Higher Education

Dennis H. Holtschneider, Niagara University

 

Discussant: Marcia G. Synnott, University of South Carolina

 

 

Friday, 2:00 p.m. to 2:40 p.m.: Special Interest Session

 

Religion and Education

 

Host: Katherine Reynolds, University of South Carolina

 

Secularism as State Religion? American Public Education and the Christian Right

Catherine Lugg, Rutgers University

 

 

Friday, 2:45 p.m. to 3:25 p.m.: Special Interest Session

 

Educating Emancipated Slaves

 

Host: Ronald E. Butchart, University of Georgia

 

The Problem of Race in the Age of Freedom: Emancipation and Schooling in Baltimore, 1861‑1867

Robert S. Wolff, Central Connecticut State University

 

 

Friday,  2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions

 

College Students and Reconceptions of Higher Learning: Gender Dimensions

 

Chair: Pamela Joseph, Antioch University, Seattle

 

“Should Your Boy Go to College?”  Mass Magazines and the Re-Conceptualization of College for a Corporate World 1890-1915 

Daniel A. Clark, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

 

“Adas Don't Dance, They Disco”: Women's Colleges and Non-Traditional Students

Debbie Cottrell, Smith College

 

The Emergence of the Modern University: A Perfect Solution to an Ailing Manhood

Carol Fulton, Iowa State University

 

Discussant: Jana Nidiffer, University of Michigan

 

 

Biography in Educational History: Contrasting Approaches

 

Chair: Kathleen Murphey, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

 

Gogues, Petagogues, and Supergogues: H.L. Mencken’s Critique of American Education

James Wallace, Lewis and Clark College, Emeritus

 

“In this Aristocratic Town?” Labor, Women and Those “Cursed Socialists”: A Collective Biography of End-of-the-Century School Politics in Southern California

Michael James, Connecticut College

 

Discussant: Craig Kridel, University of South Carolina

 

The Common Curriculum: the View from Educational History

 

Chair: Barry Franklin, University of Michigan-Flint

 

Nancy Beadie, University of Washington

Herbert M. Kliebard, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gary McCulloch, University of Sheffield

Jeffrey Mirel, Emory University

 

Friday, 3:30 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.: Special Interest Session

 

The Liberal Arts in the History of Higher Education

 

Host: Daniel Perlstein, University of California, Berkeley

 

Expanding the Canon and the “Oxbridge” Tutorial: The University of Virginia's Unique Contributions to the Liberal Arts Movement

William N. Haarlow, Charlottesville, Virginia

 

 

Friday, 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions

 

Aspects of Progressive Education from Indiana to Germany

 

Chair: TBA

 

“A Child World and a Club House for Adults”: School Architecture and the Work-Study-Play System in Gary, Indiana, 1907-1930

Dale Allen Gyure, Ruckersville, Virginia

 

Addressing the Menace of the Feebleminded: George Bliss, Amos Butler, and the Indiana Committee on Mental Defectives, 1912-1924,

Robert L. Osgood, Purdue University

 

Different and Similar Modes of Education in the Twentieth Century Progressive Education in Germany and the United States

Karl-Heinz Fuessl, Humboldt Universitaet

 

Discussant: Alan A. Sadovnik, Adelphi University

 

Hidden Histories of Education: Teachers and Students' Lives and Experiences – A Symposium

 

Convener: John Rhodes Paige, St. Edward’s University

 

Michelle Russell Nakayama, University of Maryland, College Park

Antionette Errante, Ohio State University

Barbara Finkelstein, University of Maryland

John Rhodes Paige, St. Edward’s University

 

 

Different Histories: New Issues in the Multicultural History of Education 

 
Chair: Linda Eisenmann, University of Massachusetts, Boston

 

On Whose Authority? A White Teacher's Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the 1940s

Yoon K. Pak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

White on White: Exploring the Early History of White Teachers and Race in Chicago

Kate Rousmaniere, Miami University, Ohio    

 

The Challenge of Evidentiary Standards

Cally L. Waite, Columbia University

 

Discussant: James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

Friday, 5:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.

 

History of Education Society Business Meeting

 

 

Friday, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

 

Annual History of Education Society Banquet

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 21 October

 

8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Registration

Book Exhibit

 

Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions