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Feb. 1932 New Trends in INDIAN EDUCATION Issue of Progressive Education Magazine

$ 13.19

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Culture: Native American: US
  • Condition: Minimal wear. Covers are larger than interior pages and have creasing due to this. Interior is complete and very lovely condition.
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    Description

    For bid is an original February 1932 issue of "Progressive Education: A Review of the Newer Tendencies in Education" magazine dedicated to "New Trends in Indian Education" with over 100 pages of articles and photographs dedicated to the education of Native American Indian children in the United States of America during the Great Depression era.  This issue is Volume IX, number 2 of the magazine published by "The Progressive Education Association" of Washington, DC.
    Magazine has 108 pages dedicated to Native American "Indian" education in the US, pages numbered 79 to 186.  There are many pages among those numbers that are dedicated to photographs of Indian schools, children and their artwork, etc.  In addition to the text pages, the magazine has 16 individually numbered advertising pages at the front and back of the magazine, all bound in the original brown covers!  It's a great piece of Native American Indian educational history.  Article titles include, "Indian Education Today," An Experimental School for Indians, The School and Culture, "The Shadow of an Airplane Ov er Bathi Baji," Social and Economic Organization of the New Mexico Pueblo, The Education of Primitive Peoples, "Teaching Navajo Children to Read," "Mexico: A Challenge," Language Experiments of Indian Children, and "The Principal Indian Tribes of the United States."  This is a terrific book and reference on the state of Native education in the early 1930's.
    Magazine is in outstanding condition!  It was originally the property of noted socialist economist Leo Huberman.