"The purpose of this study was to record a history of the Texas Industrial Arts Association from 1955 to 1971. Information was sought concerning the following problems: (1) What circumstances prompted the founding of the Texas Industrial Arts Association? (2) Who were those instrumental in founding the Texas Industrial Arts Association? (3) What were the purposes for which the Texas Industrial Arts Association was founded and (4) What have been the major contributions of the association?...the data used in this study were obtained from personal interviews, letters of correspondence, bulletins, brochures, minutes of the association meetings, unpublished manuscripts, theses, programs, and books." --p. 1

This dissertation contextualizes and interprets several hundred photographs illustrating six books of poetry by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Although their significance as cultural landmarks is largely unrecognized today, they rank among the largest and most widely distributed bodies of photographs of African Americans in American visual culture. Published between 1899 and 1906, the images in the Dunbar books represent a counterpoint to the much-emphasized publicity photographs made concurrently for the school by Frances Benjamin Johnston, complicating simplistic conclusions about the nature of Hampton Institute and the industrial education movement. Drawing upon substantial original research on the predominantly white Hampton Institute Camera Club and its institutional context, and presenting a biographical portrait of the lead photographer, Leigh Richmond Miner, this study ultimately traces a history of photography at Hampton Institute from the 1890s through the 1920s, reproducing more than 150 unpublished and unrepublished images. This study reveals that the photographs in Dunbar’s works were created explicitly to reconceive pictorial representations of African Americans, and to subtly discredit any reductive conventional perception of racial character altogether. By depicting their subjects photographically, the members of the Hampton Camera Club sought to undermine essentialist characterizations--both derogatory and sentimental--by presenting their subjects as self-determining and multifaceted individuals. In their use of serial photography and by employing African-American creative forms, the books ultimately suggest vernacular origins of a disjunctive, Modernist aesthetic, casting both Dunbar and Hampton as proponents of modernity rather than as icons of retrogressive racial politics. / text

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin, 1957. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92).

The problem of this study is to make a comparative analysis of the success, based on wages and increases in wages, of 209 students. There were 103 students who had completed Type "B" vocational training and 106 high school graduates who had not completed or taken Type "B" vocational training in the Houston Public Schools.

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the history of Princess Anne County Training School and Union Kempsville High School in Princess Anne County/Virginia Beach, Virginia. The method of inquiry was qualitative, historical research that relied on oral histories to provide a cultural understanding of the school from the perspectives of its students, administrators, teachers, and staff. The school's history was reconstructed through direct engagement with individuals whose interviews recounted the establishment, growth, operation, and demise of Princess Anne County Training School/Union Kempsville High School. In order to minimize the nostalgic influence and bring greater validity to the oral histories, data were also collected from historical accounts, school board and community organization minutes, local periodicals, and school artifacts.   Segregation cultivated legally separate-but-equal schools for Blacks and Whites, with little or no attention given to actual equality. In 1925, the Black community in Princess Anne County, Virginia, mobilized to build a high school for their children who were denied an education beyond seventh grade. Princess Anne County Training School opened for Black students in 1938 and initially utilized a curriculum based on industrial education. It was the first and only Black high school in Princess Anne County/Virginia Beach, Virginia. As Princess Anne County Training School progressed, the Black community eventually repudiated the term, training school. The school's name was changed to Union Kempsville High School in the fall of 1961. Gradual desegregation inaugurated by the Brown v. Board of Education decisions led to a decline in student enrollment, and Union Kempsville High School closed in 1969. / Ph. D.

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The purpose of this study was to document the history of Susie G. Gibson High School from its opening in 1954 to its closure in 1970. The researcher documented and described the establishment, operation, and closure of the school. The study includes a description of how Bedford County transitioned from a dual system of segregated education to a single school system for students of all races and how Susie G. Gibson High School was converted for use as a vocational school as it still functions today. Historical research methods were used to collect data and describe the education of Black students who attended the Susie G. Gibson High School. The evidence for the study consists of primary and secondary sources. This evidence includes written records, archives, manuscripts, maps and documents, but also artifacts (Williams, 2007, p.11). The researcher conducted in-depth interviews with students, school employees, and community members who were involved with the school. Minutes of school board meetings and other contemporary records were utilized as well. Studies by Bonner (1939) and Harrell (1951) and histories by other authors were used as secondary sources for historical context. Susie G. Gibson High School opened in the fall of 1954. It was a much anticipated event because it was the first new high school for Blacks in Bedford County, Virginia. Susie G. Gibson High School replaced the much smaller Bedford Training School that began as an elementary school, but which provided some secondary schooling after 1930. The opening of the school was a culmination of negotiations between the Black community and the Bedford County School Board. The school was the pride of the Black community for over a decade and a half. Susie G. Gibson High School changed to a vocational school in 1970 when the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) ordered Bedford County to fully integrate its school system. / Ed. D.

The traditional method of teaching welding has remained unchanged for decades. In this model, an instructor gives demonstrations to a class of students and then helps them individually as they practice the techniques of welding. This traditional instructional method has been effective but is time consuming. Due to a significant increase in the demand for skilled welders within the United States, efforts have been made to develop more efficient methods of providing welding instruction. Various electronic welding guidance systems and virtual welding systems have recently been developed. In this study, the researcher addressed two questions 1) Does the use of an electronic welding guidance system improve the pass rate that entry-level high school students receive on basic gas metal arc weld tests? 2) Will entry-level high school students who learn gas metal arc welding with a guided welding training system learn how to weld faster and/or more proficiently than those taught using the traditional training method? A study was performed in an entry-level high school welding class to determine the effectiveness of a guided welding instruction system in comparison to the traditional method of teaching welding. The results of the study indicated that the traditional method of teaching welding and the use of a guided welding system yielded similar results, both in quality and efficiency, in student ability to produce basic GMAW welds.

São enfocados neste trabalho os processos de reconfiguração dos currículos dos cursos técnicos de duas escolas estaduais gaúchas, no contexto da reforma empreendida pelo Governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso a partir de 1997. A investigação é baseada em entrevistas semi-estruturadas com professores, nos planos de curso e em outros documentos produzidos nas escolas e por órgãos governamentais durante o processo de reestruturação, complementados por observações de aulas e de eventos escolares, questionários e entrevistas com estudantes. Na análise dos processos de reconfiguração curricular são examinadas as interpretações, apropriações e reações, por parte dos professores que atuam nas escolas, às políticas governamentais e às pressões oriundas do mundo do trabalho. São identificados nexos entre as visões relativas ao mundo do trabalho e ao ensino e as vivências e identificações profissionais dos professores, construídas nas trajetórias individuais de formação e trabalho e no interior de cada instituição. O estudo mostra que a afirmação do caráter generalista dos cursos técnicos e a relevância atribuída à iniciação dos estudantes numa cultura técnica que não se reduz à aprendizagem dos processos em uso nas empresas antepõem-se, nas escolas, à lógica governamental da flexibilização, do aligeiramento e estrita adequação da formação às demandas da esfera produtiva. As resistências a essa lógica são atribuídas à validação dos modelos praticados de ensino técnico e à autonomia relativa das escolas face ao mercado de trabalho, mas também à persistência da idéia de profissão e da figura de técnico industrial tal como é projetada pelos professores, diversa das formas predominantes de inserção dos egressos. O estudo mostra também uma apropriação seletiva de elementos da pedagogia das competências pelos professores. O uso da linguagem oficial é combinado com a preservação de uma estrutura disciplinar dos cursos, da avaliação segundo notas e de objetivos relacionados à fundamentação das técnicas que não podem ser descritos como competências. A crítica ao ensino centrado na transmissão de conteúdos é incorporada por uma parcela dos professores e refutada, num dos estabelecimentos, por professores que rejeitam esse discurso pedagógico como estranho ao chão-de-escola. O estudo mostra ainda que a política governamental de ampliação de vagas com redução de custos encontra limites numa seletividade interna aos cursos atribuída, em parte, à disposição de preservação de um perfil de profissional egresso por parte dos professores, mas também às dificuldades de incorporação, pelas escolas, das diferentes expectativas e experiências de escolarização dos estudantes. Enfim, o estudo mostra que os professores do ensino técnico nessas escolas reivindicam para si uma profissionalidade baseada nos saberes construídos através da experiência e da formação e no compromisso com a ação docente, a despeito de sua contratação como emergenciais ou temporários. Ao retratarem suas concepções e práticas docentes, os professores revelam combinações singulares de aceitação de modelos existentes e esforços de inovação que estão referidos a essa profissionalidade reivindicada. / This thesis addresses the process of reconfiguration of the curricula of technical courses of two state schools in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the context of reform undertaken by the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 1997. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with teachers, the course plans and other documents produced in schools and by government agencies during the restructuring process, supplemented by classroom and school events observations, questionnaires and interviews with students. In the analysis of the processes of curriculum reconfiguration, interpretations, appropriations and reactions from teachers who work in schools to government policies and the pressures from the productive realm are examined. Connections between the visions of productive and educational realms and teachers\' professional experiences and identifications, built in their individual training and work careers within each institution are identified. The study shows that the persistence of the general character of technical courses and the relevance attributed to initiation of students in a technical culture are opposed, in schools, to the governmental logic of flexibility and strict fitness to the training demands of the productive realm. The resistance to this logic is assigned to the validation of the practiced models of technical education and the relative autonomy of schools in face of the labor market, but also to the persistence of the idea of profession and the figure of technical industrial as it is designed by teachers, unlike the prevalent forms of insertion of the graduates. The study also shows a selective appropriation of elements of the so called competences pedagogy by teachers. The use of the official language is combined with the preservation of a disciplinary structure of the courses, the evaluation according to notes and related reasoning techniques that can not be described as skills objectives. The critique on content transmission focused teaching is embraced by a portion of the teachers and refuted, in one of the establishments, by teachers who reject this teaching speech as foreign to the school ground. The study also shows that the government policy of enrollment increase and costs reducing is limited by an internal selectivity. That selectivity is assigned, in part, to the teachers\' willing of preserving a professional profile within the schools graduates, but also to the difficulties of taking into account the different expectations and educational experiences of students. Finally, the study shows that technical education teachers in these schools claim for themselves a professionalism based on knowledge built through experience and training and commitment to teaching action, despite their hiring as temporary. In portraying their conceptions and teaching practices, teachers reveal unique combinations of acceptance of existing models and innovation efforts that are referred to that claimed professionalism.

São enfocados neste trabalho os processos de reconfiguração dos currículos dos cursos técnicos de duas escolas estaduais gaúchas, no contexto da reforma empreendida pelo Governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso a partir de 1997. A investigação é baseada em entrevistas semi-estruturadas com professores, nos planos de curso e em outros documentos produzidos nas escolas e por órgãos governamentais durante o processo de reestruturação, complementados por observações de aulas e de eventos escolares, questionários e entrevistas com estudantes. Na análise dos processos de reconfiguração curricular são examinadas as interpretações, apropriações e reações, por parte dos professores que atuam nas escolas, às políticas governamentais e às pressões oriundas do mundo do trabalho. São identificados nexos entre as visões relativas ao mundo do trabalho e ao ensino e as vivências e identificações profissionais dos professores, construídas nas trajetórias individuais de formação e trabalho e no interior de cada instituição. O estudo mostra que a afirmação do caráter generalista dos cursos técnicos e a relevância atribuída à iniciação dos estudantes numa cultura técnica que não se reduz à aprendizagem dos processos em uso nas empresas antepõem-se, nas escolas, à lógica governamental da flexibilização, do aligeiramento e estrita adequação da formação às demandas da esfera produtiva. As resistências a essa lógica são atribuídas à validação dos modelos praticados de ensino técnico e à autonomia relativa das escolas face ao mercado de trabalho, mas também à persistência da idéia de profissão e da figura de técnico industrial tal como é projetada pelos professores, diversa das formas predominantes de inserção dos egressos. O estudo mostra também uma apropriação seletiva de elementos da pedagogia das competências pelos professores. O uso da linguagem oficial é combinado com a preservação de uma estrutura disciplinar dos cursos, da avaliação segundo notas e de objetivos relacionados à fundamentação das técnicas que não podem ser descritos como competências. A crítica ao ensino centrado na transmissão de conteúdos é incorporada por uma parcela dos professores e refutada, num dos estabelecimentos, por professores que rejeitam esse discurso pedagógico como estranho ao chão-de-escola. O estudo mostra ainda que a política governamental de ampliação de vagas com redução de custos encontra limites numa seletividade interna aos cursos atribuída, em parte, à disposição de preservação de um perfil de profissional egresso por parte dos professores, mas também às dificuldades de incorporação, pelas escolas, das diferentes expectativas e experiências de escolarização dos estudantes. Enfim, o estudo mostra que os professores do ensino técnico nessas escolas reivindicam para si uma profissionalidade baseada nos saberes construídos através da experiência e da formação e no compromisso com a ação docente, a despeito de sua contratação como emergenciais ou temporários. Ao retratarem suas concepções e práticas docentes, os professores revelam combinações singulares de aceitação de modelos existentes e esforços de inovação que estão referidos a essa profissionalidade reivindicada. / This thesis addresses the process of reconfiguration of the curricula of technical courses of two state schools in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the context of reform undertaken by the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 1997. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with teachers, the course plans and other documents produced in schools and by government agencies during the restructuring process, supplemented by classroom and school events observations, questionnaires and interviews with students. In the analysis of the processes of curriculum reconfiguration, interpretations, appropriations and reactions from teachers who work in schools to government policies and the pressures from the productive realm are examined. Connections between the visions of productive and educational realms and teachers\' professional experiences and identifications, built in their individual training and work careers within each institution are identified. The study shows that the persistence of the general character of technical courses and the relevance attributed to initiation of students in a technical culture are opposed, in schools, to the governmental logic of flexibility and strict fitness to the training demands of the productive realm. The resistance to this logic is assigned to the validation of the practiced models of technical education and the relative autonomy of schools in face of the labor market, but also to the persistence of the idea of profession and the figure of technical industrial as it is designed by teachers, unlike the prevalent forms of insertion of the graduates. The study also shows a selective appropriation of elements of the so called competences pedagogy by teachers. The use of the official language is combined with the preservation of a disciplinary structure of the courses, the evaluation according to notes and related reasoning techniques that can not be described as skills objectives. The critique on content transmission focused teaching is embraced by a portion of the teachers and refuted, in one of the establishments, by teachers who reject this teaching speech as foreign to the school ground. The study also shows that the government policy of enrollment increase and costs reducing is limited by an internal selectivity. That selectivity is assigned, in part, to the teachers\' willing of preserving a professional profile within the schools graduates, but also to the difficulties of taking into account the different expectations and educational experiences of students. Finally, the study shows that technical education teachers in these schools claim for themselves a professionalism based on knowledge built through experience and training and commitment to teaching action, despite their hiring as temporary. In portraying their conceptions and teaching practices, teachers reveal unique combinations of acceptance of existing models and innovation efforts that are referred to that claimed professionalism.