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Wartime Teachers: Stories From The Front, Rachel K. Turner, Eliel Hinojosa Jr.
Wartime Teachers: Stories From The Front, Rachel K. Turner, Eliel Hinojosa Jr.
Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications
In the early 1990s, Dr. O.L. Davis of the University of Texas at Austin sought evacuee teacher and student recollections in England during World War II. The overarching purpose for Davis was to gain an understanding of the effect on schooling and education, specifically as it relates to the curriculum for students. This article continues where he left off and places focus on teacher evacuees. Of the several hundred responses from student evacuees, we utilized ten of the thirty teacher evacuees who responded to Dr. Davis. The purpose in this research endeavor seeks to discover the impact evacuations in England …