The Arthurdale School : Cultural Intervention Through Rural Folklife Education in a Progressive New Deal Setting, Hardback Book

The Arthurdale School : Cultural Intervention Through Rural Folklife Education in a Progressive New Deal Setting Hardback

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This book chronicles the school envisioned by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1933 to serve Arthurdale, the New Deal government-created community in north-central West Virginia.

Arthurdale was founded to house unemployed miners and their families and provide them with opportunities to receive healthcare and obtain gainful employment.

Roosevelt had a particular interest in the education of children, feeling that education and social life were profoundly intertwined within a community.

With that in mind, in 1934, she hired Elsie Ripley Clapp—an educator and leader in the Progressive Education movement—to design and implement the school, as well as oversee the social life of Arthurdale as a whole.

In addition to covering the Arthurdale School's birth, life, and dissolution, Rosenberg discusses how the lessons of the school might serve the culture of education today, especially as an element of a comprehensive approach to community revitalization.

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