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Assessing Colonization’S Historic And Enduring Impact On Native American Food Culture From An Adult Education Perspective, Angela Kissel
Assessing Colonization’S Historic And Enduring Impact On Native American Food Culture From An Adult Education Perspective, Angela Kissel
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this Research Roundtable is to connect pre- and post-colonization adult education discourse to the historic and continued preservation of Native American food culture.
John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 1377. Research materials for a history of the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina, compiled by Dr. James M. Gifford.
John H. Vincent: The Other Co-Founder Of Chautauqua, Timothy S. Binkley
John H. Vincent: The Other Co-Founder Of Chautauqua, Timothy S. Binkley
Bridwell Library Research
This address, delivered at the Chautauqua Institution Hall of Philosophy on July 20, 2018, reviews the life of John Heyl Vincent (1832-1920) and his relationship to the Chautauqua Institution. Vincent was an American Methodist clergyman and bishop and a leading figure in the Sunday School movement. In 1874 Vincent and businessman Lewis Miller (1829-1899) established an innovative, trans-denominational Sunday School teachers’ training event on the shores of Lake Chautauqua in southwestern New York state. Under the leadership of Vincent and Miller, that event developed into the Chautauqua Institution: an annual summer-long celebration of the arts, religion, education, and recreation, and …
Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 785. Incoming letters, clippings, etc., 1965(?)-1969(?) (54 items), of Thomas Awbrey, Fordsville, Kentucky, who was learning to read and write at age 71. His story received national press coverage in January 1966, which resulted in him hearing from people from throughout the nation. Also correspondence concerning collection, 1976-1986 (5 items).
The Invisible Woman And The Silent University, Elizabeth Robinson Cole
The Invisible Woman And The Silent University, Elizabeth Robinson Cole
Dissertations
Anna Eliot Ticknor (1823 – 1896) founded the first correspondence school in the United States, the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. In the fall of 1873 an educational movement was quietly initiated from her home in Boston, Massachusetts. A politically and socially sophisticated leader, she recognized the need that women felt for continuing education and understood how to offer the opportunity within the parameters afforded women of nineteenth century America. With a carefully chosen group of women and one man, Ticknor built a learning society that extended advanced educational opportunities to all women regardless of financial ability, educational background, …
Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 1556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Awbrey, Thomas, 1894-1973 (Sc 1556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1556. Correspondence between Thomas Awbrey, Fordsville, Kentucky, and President Lyndon B. Johnson relating to Awbrey's completion of an adult education class where he learned to read at age 71. Includes a newspaper clipping about Awbrey and information from the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas.
Laubach In India: 1935 To 1970, S. Y. Shah
Laubach In India: 1935 To 1970, S. Y. Shah
The Courier
Dr. Frank C. Laubach, missionary and adult educator, dedicated his life to the cause of literacy for development and world peace. During his travels to 103 countries, he worked toward helping some 60 to 100 million people become literate. In addition, he founded or helped found four literacy organizations, including Laubach Literacy International; wrote forty books on adult education, Christian religion, world politics, and culture; and co-authored literacy primers in more than 300 languages. He was awarded four honorary doctorates—one of them from Syracuse University.
Although Laubach worked in many other countries, it is said that his heart was always …
The Grizzly, October 19, 1979, Brian Barlow, Jennifer Bassett, Ross Schwalm, Diana Dakay, Dean Mioli, Jay Repko, Stephanie Kane, Brian Clemens, David Garner, Michael Chiarappa, Jean Morrison, Martin Katz, Margaret Martz, Bruce Dalziel, Tracy Nadzak
The Grizzly, October 19, 1979, Brian Barlow, Jennifer Bassett, Ross Schwalm, Diana Dakay, Dean Mioli, Jay Repko, Stephanie Kane, Brian Clemens, David Garner, Michael Chiarappa, Jean Morrison, Martin Katz, Margaret Martz, Bruce Dalziel, Tracy Nadzak
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
Ursinus - Tohoku Make Exchange • Campus Life Committee • Faculty Makes Recommendations About College Curriculum • Women's Financial Workshop Offered • Letters to the Editor • Ursinus News In Brief: Student teachers assigned; Generous alumni gifts; Alternate weekend • 1979 Homecoming Candidates • The Who - An Interesting Saga • The Long Run - Always Sincere • ProTheatre To Open • Knack Review • Music News: Disco, Tom Petty • C.S. Lewis Forum • Super Sundae • USGA Notes • Fearless Friday Forecast • Young Artists Series Resume • Life In Your Nasal Passage: Frat War Is Hell!!! • …