Title

Education and the cultural process : papers presented at symposium commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Fisk University, April 29-May 4, 1941 / edited by Charles S. Johnson.

Publication

[Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1943?].

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Additional Authors

• Fisk University.
• Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956.
• Symposium Commemorating the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Fisk University (1941 : Fisk University)

Description

iii, 136 p.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Acculturation
• African Americans > Education > Congresses
• Education

Note

• "The papers here presented were prepared for a seminar conducted by the Department of Social Sciences of Fisk University on the occasion of the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the institution."--p. 2.
• "Reprinted from the American Journal of Sociology, vol. 48, no. 6, May, 1943."

Contents

• Education and the cultural process: introduction to symposium, by C.S. Johnson.--Our educational emphases in primitive perspective, by Margaret Mead.--Culture and education in the midwestern highlands of Guatemala, by Robert Redfield.--The Pan-African problem of culture contact, by Bronislaw Malinowski.--The West African "bush" school, by M.H. Watkins.--Education, child-training, and culture, by Scudder Mekeel.--Education for survival: the Jews, by Louis Wirth.--The educational process and the Brazilian Negro, by Donald Pierson.--Education as a social process: a case study of a higher institution as an incident in the process of acculturation, by H.M. Bond.--Comparative education in colonial areas, with special reference to plantation and mission frontiers, by E.T. Thompson.
• Cont. Transmitting our democratic heritage in the schools, by Ruth Benedict.--Education and the cultural crisis, by R.E. Park.--Education and cultural dynamics, by M.J. Herskovits.--The channeling of Negro aggression by the cultural process, by Hortense Powdermaker.--The educational process as applied in America, by E.R. Embree.

Call Number

Sc 370.19-F (Fisk University. Dept. of Social Sciences. Education and the cultural process. Reprint ed.)

Title

Education and the cultural process : papers presented at symposium commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Fisk University, April 29-May 4, 1941 / edited by Charles S. Johnson.

Imprint

[Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1943?].

Added Author

Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956.

Fisk University.

Symposium Commemorating the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Fisk University (1941 : Fisk University)

Research Call Number

Sc 370.19-F (Fisk University. Dept. of Social Sciences. Education and the cultural process. Reprint ed.)