This article serves as a foundation for understanding the earliest form of technical instruction in colonial America. It is a synthesis of historical studies that have addresses the education of indentured servants and apprentices in colonial America. It defines indentured servitude and contrasts it with apprenticeship--a form of indentured…

Developed by the German pedagogue Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852), the Kindergarten offered a revolutionary educational program for young children. In the mid-nineteenth century, after several decades of limited success in the German states, Froebel's Kindergarten began to be transplanted to other countries, including the USA and England. The…

"American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty" is a study of knowledge and power, as it relates to Indian affairs, in the early republic. It details the interactions, exchanges, and networks through which linguistic and racial ideas were produced and it examines the effect of those ideas on Indian administration. First…

History and social studies textbooks have often been the object of heated political debate in various countries, since they relate directly to issues of national identity and citizenship. This article analyzes how "foreigners" are portrayed in two versions (the 2000 and 2006 versions, date of issue) of the best-selling elementary social…

This guide contains 15 articles that discuss materials to be used for ethnohistorical research; the guide also serves as a textbook for courses on ethnohistory and related subjects. The articles are: "The Anthropological Use of Historic Documents" (D. Wiedman); "Public Documents as Primary Sources for Ethnohistorical Research: The…

Unlike most social scientists, this author believes that the tribe is an artificial product of the state and not an evolutionary step in the civilization process. He uses as an example, the appearance of American Indian tribes which seem to have formed after the Indians came under United States rule. (MA)

Old-fashioned ethnographic field work as exemplified in this study of the Eastern Creeks has an intrinsic pragmatic utility precisely because it is so generalized and nonproblem oriented as to be flexible enough to meet a great variety of informational and social needs of the moment. (JC)

Uses the ethno-historical approach to illuminate past accounts of Cherokee music written by soldiers, travelers, and missionaries. (ERB)

Research conducted at Many Farms High School showed that achievement has been somewhat enhanced when the number of ethno-science exemplars (actual examples of materials and topics of Navajo culture, categorized as concrete, representative or symbolic and further described relative to the sense perceptions) is increased. (Author)

Anthropological suggestions for educational research are contrasted with the psychological and sociological approaches to the study of education. The statement of problems in educational research when education is defined as cultural transmission implies equal interest in all parties involved in educational systems and transactions, as well as in…

Concludes that when "pure" science is applied to notions of "pure" race the results are usually fictions for future generations to refute, ignore, or be oppressed. Douglass speech suggests that academe has generally reflected the same biases and the same tendencies, as the larger society. (Author/AM)

Examines the history and structure of two interdisciplinary fields (sociology of music and ethnomusicology) and describes their relationship to each other. Looks at the sociology of music within the context of musical scholarship, describes four approaches to musical sociology, and contrasts sociology of music with ethnomusicology. (AYC)