No small lives
Subtitle: handbook of North American early women adult educators, 1925-1950
By: edited by Susan Imel, The Ohio State University, and Gretchen T. Bersch, University of Alaska Anchorage
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Charlotte, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781623968830; 9781623968847; 9781623968854
Subjects: Women educators; Biography; Adult education; History
Notes: includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Searching for the women in a defeminized past : American adult education between the wars / Amy D. Rose; title: Adult education history and the issue of gender : stepping back to move forward / Jane M. Hugo; title: Lucy Wilcox Adams : proponent of discussion-based adult education / Susan Imel; title: Don't shush me! : Nora Bateson, activist librarian / Sue Adams; title: Nannie Helen Burroughs : religious leader, educator, activist / Opal Easter-Smith; title: Maestra maravillosa : Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert / Rosalie C. Otero; title: Olive Dame Campbell : an Appalachian social activist and adult educator / Rosalie C. Otero; title: Jessie Allen Charters : giving the best we know to mothers and fathers / Constance E. Wanstreet; title: Jean Carter Ogden : these things we've tried : democracy and adult education / Susan J. Barcinas; title: Eve Chappell : a fine Italian hand / Susan Imel; title: Mary L. Ely : dedicated adult educator / Gretchen T. Bersch; title: Dorothy Canfield Fisher : strengthening democracy through adult learning / Charlene A. Sexton; title: Mary Parker Follett : a paradox of adult learner and educator / Vivian W. Mott; title: Waking up the world : Mae C. Hawes and adult education / Lisa R. Merriweather; title: Maria L. Hernández : an untiring fighter / Sylvia Fuentes; title: Dorothy V. Hewitt : pioneer and founder of the Boston Center for Adult Education / Mary Alice Wolf; title: Ruth Kotinsky : glancing back, reaching forward / Norma Nerstrom; title: "Education for living" : Roberta Campbell Lawson / Marilyn McKinley Parrish; title: Florence Mary O'Neill : her own path through the Newfoundland wilderness / Katherine McManus; title: Bonaro Wilkinson Overstreet : adult education for an educated citizenery / Yvonne K. Rappaport and Marcie Boucouvalas; title: Elizabeth Peratrovich : the right to education / Diane E. Benson; title: Virginia Estelle Randolph and the Jeanes teachers / Bernadine S. Chapman; title: Harriett Rouillard : "the stamp of its editor" on the CAAE's food for thought / Leona M. English; title: "Whistling in the dark" : the adult education work of prison arts teacher Amy Paddon Row / Dominique T. Chlup; title: Dorothy Rowden : tireless editor, writer, and advocate / Lisa M. Baumgartner; title: Hilda "Jane" Worthington Smith : pioneer in women workers' education / Gretchen T. Bersch; title: Moranda Smith : from tobacco plant worker, to local union organizer, to first African American woman to head a southern regional union / Jovita M. Ross-Gordon and Geleana Drew Alston; title: The vision and pedagogical sensibility of Isabel Wilson : giving credit where credit is due / Shauna Butterwick and Jonathan B. Fishe; title: Women, gender politics, and adult education in the contemporary world : leaning in to "progress" / Juanita Johnson-Bailey and Elizabeth J. Tisdell; title: Themes across the women's lives / Susan Imel and Gretchen T. Bersch; title: Appendix A: Other notable women from 1925 to 1950 / Carole L. Lund.