Adult education movement in america 1920 1930 - Slide Presentation

1. Adult Education Movement in America 1920-1930 Steve Barlow Ty Frohbieter Dane Graham

2. National and World Events1920s 1920: Women’s Suffrage; Prohibition Begins in the U.S.; First Commercial Radio Broadcast Aired. 1921: U.S. Congress Declares End to WWI; Extreme Inflation in Germany; Irish Free State Proclaimed. 1922: Teapot Dome Scandal in Wyoming Unfolds; Insulin Discovered; Mussolini Marches on Rome; Tomb of King Tut Uncovered. 1923: President Harding Dies; Charleston Dance Becomes Popular; Hitler Jailed After Failed Coup. 1924: First Olympic Winter Games Held; Lenin Dies/Stalin Becomes Soviet Dictator.

3. 1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes Wyoming’s Governor and First Woman Governor in U.S.; Hitler Publishes Mein Kampf. 1926: A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh; Robert Goddard Fires His First Liquid-Fuel Rocket; The General Strike Happens in Britain Bringing the Nation to a Standstill. 1927: BBC Founded; Babe Ruth Breaks Home-Run Record; First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer; Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic; German Economy Collapses. 1928: Herbert Hoover Wins Presidential Election Bubble Gum Invented; First Mickey Mouse Cartoon; First Oxford English DictionaryPublished; Penicillin Discovered; Sliced Bread Invented. 1929: Car Radio Invented; First Academy Awards; Stock Market Crashes - Triggering the Great Depression.

4. 1920 The Carnegie Corporation begins to take interest in adult education. The Carnegie Corporation identifies several national problems that can be addressed through education.

6. 1923 Adult Education becomes the focus of the New School. An experiment in adult education and social research decides to make adult education the main focus. The New School later becomes a degree- granting university.

7. 1924 In 1924, the radio station KYW in Chicago became the first in the United States, and most likely in North America, to broadcast a health education program of daily morning exercises. This radio program was done in collaboration with the physical education staff of the Chicago YMCA. Progressive Movement. American Library Adult Education Movement

8. 1925 The NAACP’s legal strategy against segregated education began with a grant given by the Garland Fund, which enabled the organization to design and implement a plan to strategically litigate the practice. John Dewey Publishes Experience and Nature.

9. 1926 Carnegie Corporation’s adult education campaign culminates into the American Association for Adult Education. (AAAE) 1927 Edward L. Thorndike published The Measurement of Intelligence.

10. 1928 65 colleges and universities using radio as a tool for linking universities to the public. Summer schools for women workers organized the Affiliated Schools for Women Workers with Hilda Smith as the director.

11. 1929 The National Literacy Campaign was launched this time targeting Native Americans, African Americans, and immigrants. Indoor Henry Ford Museum created. The Fellowship of Reconciliation began its focus on social and economic matters, calling attention to class struggles and denouncing the treatment of African Americans.

13. 1931: Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion; Christ Monument Built on Rio de Janeiro Hilltop; Empire State Building Completed; U.S. Officially Receives National Anthem.

14. 1932: Air Conditioning Invented; Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic; Lindbergh's Baby Kidnapped; Scientists Split the Atom.

16. 1930 National Park Service created the Branch of Education in its Washington office. The end of the “parent education on the nation’s intellectual map” movement, which resulted in the founding of Parents Magazine and spending of over seven million dollars to promote “standardized, expert-controlled child raising.” The start of the Dust Bowl.

17. 1931 President Herbert Hoover's National Advisory Committee on Education issues its report on American schools, finding them in generally good condition. Dick and Jane books were published.

18. 1932 The Highlander Folk School was founded by Myles Horton.

19. 1933 The New Deal program in education began. The first adult education program was created at Columbia University. Tennessee Valley Authority (TAV) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

23. 1939 Kellogg Centers for Continuing Education established. John Steinbeck publishes the Dust Bowl epic The Grapes of Wrath. 80% of the population owns a radio.

24. Historical Figures in Adult Education Emily Griffith Opportunity School of Denver, Colorado

25. Albert Mansbridge Worked with the Workers Educational Association Helped Form the World Association of Adult Education

26. Edward L. Thorndike (1874-1949)Psychologist

27. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune 1875 – 1955 National Figure in African American Women’s Education and History

28. Questions In 1920, the first commercial radio broadcast aired changing the way information could be disseminated to the population. In 1924, the first educational radio broadcast was aired. In what ways did the invention of radio influence the practice of adult education? What was the relationship between the Carnegie Foundation and the American Association for Adult Education? What roles did the FDR’s New Deal and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) play during the Great Depression? During the 1930s, there were questions about the role of the federal government in adult education. Should the federal government have played a less intrusive role during this dark period?

29. References: Field, Richard (7/14/2005) John Dewey (1859-1952), retrieved from http://www.iep.utm.edu/dewey/ Rachal, John, (na) THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ADULT EDUCATION MOVEMENT: THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL, 1924-1933, retrieved from http://www-distance.syr.edu/racha Rosenberg, Jennifer (na) 1920s Timeline, retrieved from, http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/1920timeline.htm Stubblefield, H. W., & Keane, P. (1994). Adult education in the American experience: From the colonial period to the present. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.