African American History and One-Room Schools

Dr. Janell Drone Presents at History of Education Society Conference

 

 CSAA board member Janell Drone shared her one-room school expertise in Little Rock, Arkansas recently offering her presentation entitled: "Invisible Assets and the Rise of Delaware African American One-Room School Facilities."

 

Representing the New York Public Library Janell was part of the strand: Remembering African American Schools of Yesteryear: Building Community Through Facilities, Teachers, and Students Voices.

 

 

Scholars from across the nation meet in October or November each year for a three day HES conference to:

• Promote and improve the teaching of the history of education in colleges and universities;
• Encourage scholarly research in the history of education, and facilitate the publication and dissemination of the results of that research;
• Interest the educational profession and the public at large in the value of historical perspective in the making of educational policy;
• Promote library and museum facilities for the preservation of source materials in the history of education;
• Cooperate with specialists in other disciplines to interpret educational developments in a broad historical context;
• Encourage cooperation among specialists in the history of education throughout the world in joint studies and the exchange of documents;
• Cooperate wherever possible with organizations of professional historians and professional educators throughout the world.

 

Dr. Drone has graciously shared her 2017 paper with the readers of the CSAA Newsletter along with a podcast interview discussing her research. You may access her scholarly paper, a short YouTube Video and her podcast interview below. All are live links:

 

 

"INVISIBLE ASSETS AND THE RISE OF DELAWARE AFRICAN

AMERICAN ONE-ROOM SCHOOL FACILITIES" by Dr. Janell Drone

 

Download HES Paper

 

 

PODCAST INTERVIEW:

MASCLab episode 3_103017

 

YOUTUBE INTRODUCTION:

 

Dr. Janell Drone