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Direct linkSpan, Christopher M. – History of Education Quarterly, 2022
This History of Education Society Presidential Address primarily utilizes evocative autoethnography and narrative inquiry to convey its main points. It is written in the storytelling tradition of the African American past and analyzes the lives of three generations of Black Mississippians as they navigated life in Jim Crow Mississippi. It…
Descriptors: Presidents, Educational History, Organizations (Groups), Ethnography
Download full textUricchio, Cassandra; Moore, Gary; Coley, Michael – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2013
Corn clubs played an important role in improving agriculture at the turn of the 20th century. Corn clubs were local organizations consisting of boys who cultivated corn on one acre of land under the supervision of a local club leader. The purpose of this historical research study was to document the organization, operation, and outcomes of corn…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Extension Education, Rural Extension, Youth Clubs
Peer reviewedOmishakin, M. Ademola – Phylon, 1982
Presents results of a survey on housing conditions, knowledge of health hazards, use of health facilities, and health needs among Black agricultural workers in Leflore County, Mississippi. Indicates the need for health education, better medical coverage, and community involvement in health care delivery, to improve health conditions in the county.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Health Education, Health Needs
Peer reviewedTaylor, Walter N. – Journal of Extension, 1989
A survey of 32 displaced agricultural workers and 19 prospective employers identified the education and training perceived necessary by both groups to gain employment in desired occupations. Results indicate that educational efforts should teach problem-solving and decision-making skills as well as technical skills. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Laborers, Decision Making Skills, Dislocated Workers
Reed, Deborah B.; Browning, Steven R.; Westneat, Susan C.; Kidd, Pamela S. – Journal of Rural Health, 2006
Context: Children on farms perform work that places them at risk for acute and chronic negative health outcomes. Despite strategies for preventing and reducing the risk of disease and injury, children's use of personal protective equipment and safety equipped farm machinery has generally remained unreported. Purpose: This paper reports the use of…
Descriptors: Safety Equipment, Adolescents, Gender Differences, Predictor Variables
Dunbar, Anthony – 1969
Some 97 families (having 500 children) who live in the Louise-Midnight area of Mississippi were interviewed for this study conducted in 1968. The 45-minute interviews were taped, and excerpts from the tapes serve as starting points for disussions in the document on areas such as employment, food habits, health and health care, political climate,…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Community Responsibility
