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The Operationalization Of The Doctrine Of In Loco Parentis: The Administrative Council Of The University Of Tennessee In The Early 1920s And 1930s, Bryan Franklin Coker
The Operationalization Of The Doctrine Of In Loco Parentis: The Administrative Council Of The University Of Tennessee In The Early 1920s And 1930s, Bryan Franklin Coker
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The purpose of this study was to describe how the doctrine of in loco parentis was operationalized at the University of Tennessee during the early 1920s and 1930s, through analysis of the minutes of the University of Tennessee Administrative Council, the administrative body charged with the major decisions concerning student life for the University. The phenomenon under examination in this single, descriptive, holistic case study design was the operationalization of the concept of in loco parentis, and the case was the University of Tennessee during the early 1920s and 1930s.
The study identified the various issues with which the Administrative …