scholarly journals Until the Revolution: Analyzing the Politics, Pedagogy, and Curriculum of the Oakland Community School

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-203
Author(s):  
Robert P Robinson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Day School ◽  
Community School ◽  
Full Time ◽  
California Department ◽  
Freedom Schools ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Power Studies ◽  
Pedagogy And Curriculum ◽  
Black Panther

In United States conversations about progressive pedagogy and alternative forms of education, the longstanding models that scholars used were predominantly white. African-American historians of education have problematized this narrative. More recently, the interdisciplinary field of Black Power studies has increased investigation into Afrocentric pedagogy and Black politically-engaged education after World War II (Rickford, 2016). While much attention has been paid to the freedom schools, educational sites run by Black revolutionary nationalists have received less attention. One particular site is the Oakland Community School (OCS), the Black Panther Party’s full-time day school. Initially a combined day-care and home school known as the Children’s House in 1970, the school changed to become the Intercommunal Youth Institute in 1971. It then operated as the Oakland Community School from 1974 until 1982, earning acclaim from the California Department of Education and the governor of California (Gore, Theoharis & Woodard, 2009). While multiple historical studies detail the pedagogical contours of the school and its community engagement, very few elicit the voices of former students. This work incorporates such voices, in conjunction with traditional archives and digital archival material, as a means of contextualizing the OCS within the Black Panther Party’s politics of the period and the school’s implications for contemporary education. 

Madeleine Dring

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda Brister ◽  
Jay Rosenblatt
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Full Time ◽  
World War ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Piano Students ◽  
Television Shows

This book is the first scholarly biography of Madeleine Dring (1923–1977). Using diaries, letters, and extensive archival research, the narrative examines her career and explores her music. The story of Dring’s life begins with her formal training at the Royal College of Music, first in the Junior Department and then as a full-time student, a period that also covers her personal experience of events both leading up to and during the early years of World War II. Her career is traced in detail through radio and television shows and West End revues, all productions for which she wrote music, as well as her work as an actor. Dring’s most important contemporaries are briefly discussed in relation to her life, including her teachers at the Royal College of Music, professional connections such as Felicity Gray and Laurier Lister, and her husband Roger Lord. Her musical compositions are surveyed, from the earliest works she wrote as a student to the art songs she wrote in her last years, along with various popular numbers for revues and numerous piano pieces for beginning piano students as well as those suitable for the concert hall. Each chapter singles out one or more of these works for detailed description and analysis, with attention to the qualities that characterize her distinctive musical style.

The Lady Composer Learns Her Craft

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-114
Author(s):  
Wanda Brister ◽  
Jay Rosenblatt
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Ralph Vaughan Williams ◽  
World War ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Full Time Student ◽  
Vaughan Williams

The period of Dring’s life as a full-time student at the Royal College of Music overlapped with the concluding years of World War II. The director of the RCM, George Dyson, decided to keep the school open, and Dring’s diaries provide a picture of her life during the first years of the war. Principal teachers included W.H. Reed in violin, Lilian Gaskell in piano, Topliss Green in voice, and Margaret Rubel in “dramatic.” Dring continued to be active as a performer, earning her ARCM certificate in piano, and she performed in many plays and scenes as part of the dramatic class. She also had the opportunity to produce, direct, and write the music for The Emperor and the Nightingale, the annual Christmas play for the Junior Department. Her most important instructor was Herbert Howells in composition, with whom she studied for her entire four years as a full-time student, and she also took occasional lessons with Ralph Vaughan Williams. Her musical style is discussed through an examination of “Under the Greenwood Tree,” the first of her Three Shakespeare Songs, written and first performed during these years.

VENDING SANITATION AND SAFETY-A CURRENT REPORT1

1969 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 474-476
Author(s):  
David E. Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Public ◽  
Food And Beverages ◽  
Vending Machines ◽  
External Training ◽  
Public Health And Safety

While the automatic vending of food and beverages—and non-food merchandise—has been a part of The American scene since the late 1880's, problems of public health and safety did not enter the picture until the end of World War II when the first hot beverage vending machine went on location. In 1947, the vending industry and health officials first came together to discuss the development of uniform national standards for vending machines and vending operators. In 1957, after necessary research and preparation, The Public Health Service published The Vending of Food and Beverages—A Recommended Ordinance and Code. In the same year, the industry launched a full-time public health and safety program, guided by a nationally-constituted Health-Industry Council. The progress in sanitation and safety made as a result of cooperative industry and agency efforts over the past 12 years is discussed in terms of vending legislation, internal and external training, machine standardization and testing, and research. Concluding, a review of current problems in such matters as microwave safety, copper poisoning safeguards, temperature controls, icemaker design, and commissary layout is made, together with a “crystal ball” look at the future.

The Cost of Juridification: Lineages of Cheap Labor in Twentieth-Century Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-52
Author(s):  
Adrian Grama
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Full Time ◽  
World War ◽  
East European ◽  
Cheap Labor ◽  
The Cost

This article explores the relationship between the development of labor law and the cost of labor in Romania between the end of World War I and the 1960s. Drawing on a variety of archival and printed sources, the author argues that the historical trajectory of this peripheral East European country shows in exemplary fashion how the increasing juridification of labor relations was first enabled by policy makers’ concern to neutralize class conflict during the 1920s and then propelled by the collapse of industrial wages and the turn to import substitution in the aftermath of the Great Depression. The state socialist regime after 1945, the author further contends, inherited not merely the cheap labor of the interwar epoch but also the institutional mechanisms for controlling prices and wages set up to manage the economy during World War II, all of which facilitated the expansion of socialist labor law during the first two postwar decades. By the second half of the twentieth century, rapidly industrializing socialist Romania could thus integrate an expanding workforce into a type of employment relationship normally deemed standard: full-time, stable, dependent, and socially protected work. The author concludes by pointing out some of the implications of this Eastern European case study for how we might rethink the twin issues of the cost of labor and the transformation of labor law in our age of precarity.

Sacred Channels

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erich Hörl
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
World War ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Friedrich Kittler ◽  
Cultural Imaginary ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Erich Hörl's Sacred Channels is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of the sacred and the primitive. Hörl offers insight into the shared ground of anthropology and media theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and presents an archeology of the philosophy of technology that underpins contemporary culture. This singular and unique project focuses on the ethnological disciplines and their phantasmatic imaginations of a prealphabetical realm of the sacred and the primitive but reads them in the context of media cultural questions as epistemic unconscious and as projections of the emerging postalphabetical condition. Drawing inspiration from work by the likes of Friedrich Kittler, Hörl's understanding of cybernetics in the post-World War II interdisciplinary field informs a rich analysis that is of interest to media scholars and to anyone seeking to understand the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the humanities in the age of technical media.

Post World War II—America Rising

Artful Noise ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 64-81
Author(s):  
Thomas Siwe
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Chamber Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
World War ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Andre Jolivet ◽  
The Arts ◽  
French Composers

Following World War II, thousands of returning servicemen and women enrolled in American colleges and universities with the financial assistance of the GI Bill. Colleges acted in response to the needs of these older students by offering career-oriented courses and by hiring new faculty to teach them. Music departments began hiring full-time percussion teachers and graduating classes of educated and skilled percussionists. Contemporary composers found these new graduates willing to play their works and responded by dramatically increasing the number of works written for percussion, both solo and ensemble. In the United States, Michael Colgrass, Alan Hovhaness, Henry Brant, and William Kraft created a variety of works ranging from chamber music to solos and even a symphony for percussion. As Europe and Asia recovered from the war, the arts there began a process of rebirth. In the late 1950s and 1960s, French composers André Jolivet, Marius Constant, and Maurice Ohana added a number of percussion works for the concert hall as well as for the dance. The years following World War II and the decades that immediately followed saw a resurgence of musical creativity and the schooled percussionist became sought after as both performer and teacher.

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME OFFICE OF SPILL PREVENTION AND RESPONSE CONVERGENT VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia K. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Petroleum Products ◽  
Full Time ◽  
California Department ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
The Media ◽  
Administrative Tasks ◽  
Spilled Oil ◽  
Operations Center

ABSTRACT The California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) have the authority to use Convergent Volunteers during a spill event to assist with rehabilitating oiled wildlife. The Convergent Volunteer Program was created to allow concerned citizens to help save wildlife injured by oil spill events in our state. Volunteers’ interests, talents, and skills are matched with wildlife needs and work opportunities at the primary care facility responding to the spill. Previous experience with wildlife, while helpful, is not required to volunteer. Volunteers in the OSPR program are people from all walks of life, who want to be good stewards of California and our wildlife. Our volunteers are individuals who come forward to help assist with rehabbing oiled wildlife after learning of an oil spill from the media or other sources. They are average citizens willing to share their wealth of knowledge and learn how to rehabilitate wildlife that have been injured by spilled oil. Some volunteers work full time, some a few hours a week or month, or during a particular season or spill event. Volunteers perform a wide variety of tasks, such as; animal intake, animal food preparation, animal stabilization, animal washing, volunteer operations center, construction or electrical work (building pens, etc.) clerical and administrative tasks, and laundry. At the OSPR, we strive to ensure that all wildlife exposed to petroleum products in the environment receive the best achievable treatment available. Ultimately, we succeed because of the vigorous efforts of our dedicated oil spill volunteers.

Tourism Reform, Policy and Development in Queensland, 1989–2011

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Dredge
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Full Time Equivalent ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Multiplier Effects ◽  
Local Pressures ◽  
Global And Local

Tourism has been a major driver of economic and social development in Queensland since the end of World War II. In 2011, tourism's direct contribution to the economy was estimated to be $7.8 billion, and it generated direct employment of an estimated 118,000 full-time equivalent jobs (Queensland Tourism 2011). The multiplier effects of tourism account for another $9.2 billion, making it the most important component of the state's service sector. These figures suggest that the approach adopted by the Labor government over the last two decades to manage and develop Queensland tourism has generally been positive. However, a closer examination of recent trends and criticisms reveals that visitor demand has flat-lined: the industry is struggling under the weight of global and local pressures, investment has slowed, and there are issues of stagnating demand, competitiveness, service quality, industry capacity and innovation. Moreover, Queensland is losing international market share compared with New South Wales and Victoria (Tourism Research Australia 2011). Given that governments have a key role to play in creating and maintaining policy conditions that contribute to both a healthy economy and social well-being, what have been the Queensland Labor government's contributions to tourism, and what are the key challenges into the future?

NRCA-Amvets Auxiliary Scholarship Winners For 1972

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-203
Author(s):  
Edmund Gaydos
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Faculty Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Criterion ◽  
Full Time ◽  
World War ◽  
Counseling Programs ◽  
National Competition ◽  
Scholarship Program ◽  
State Regional

Marlene A. Nelson, Chairman of the NRCA Scholarship Committee, reported that 28 contestants representing 18 schools from fifteen states participated in 1972 NRCA—AMVETS Auxiliary Scholarship Program. The National Rehabilitation Counseling Association and the American Veterans of World War II Auxiliary have established national $1,000 and $500 cash scholarships to be awarded to students enrolled full time in Graduate Rehabilitation Counseling Programs. An annual search for winners is conducted through state, regional, and national competition. The winner of the top national NRCA—AMVETS Scholarship is the guest of both the AMVETS Auxiliary and NRCA at their annual meetings for the presentation of the scholarship.Each contestant must submit a brief essay which serves as one facet of the judging criteria along with scholastic and faculty evaluation criterion. The Journal is pleased to print the essays of the first and second place winners.

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