Abstract
Given the success of the Assembly, Rachel decided she wanted to develop her own intellectual capacities in thinking about the Assembly as a reliable tool for the encouragement of tolerance. In 1929 Rachel left Woodbury and started graduate school in Educational Sociology at Teachers College/Columbia University. At Teachers College, Rachel began to develop an advanced method for creating and evaluating the Assembly through the addition of five wishes to be achieved through the program: wishes for new experience, recognition, response, security, and experience outside of the self. These along with emotion, intellect, and social interaction formed the total structure of the Assembly and a new program, Group Conversation/Neighborhood-Home Festival. Academe and philanthropy became aware of the value of Rachel’s programs, and in 1934, the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education was formed. This chapter explores the programs, the Bureau, and Rachel’s involuntary resignation.
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From “Jewish Learning” AJC information page accessed from the AJC information page, accessed 11 March 2019.
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I write here from personal experience with a PEA school. I felt that the school, while presenting itself to the public as an opportunity for individual expression, it promoted it as long as one behaved within its self-defined system. We were tested, we were categorized by our academic test scores, and I know, for myself, I was closely watched in my social development. In fact, soon after I graduated, a teacher friend and I went through my file and discarded many of the teachers’ and administrators’ notes on me. Also, the school experience, while it did allow a certain amount of latitude, personally, it made me yearn to attend a large university where I wouldn’t be watched so closely. Ah, “even paranoids have enemies.”
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In Get Together Americans, Rachel describes a session in a city-wide black-out. During the event, Josh White sings “Summertime” from the show Porgy and Bess, which opened on stage in 1935 (See Wiki, accessed 19 May 2019). The year should have been between 1936 and 1937 for this black-out.
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Narrator for Program # 10, the Germans.
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Narrator at end of Program #10, the Germans.
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These supporters included Hollingsworth Wood, Eduard C. Johnson, and Rabbi Milton Steinberg.
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Rosenberg, J. (2019). Graduate School and the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education (1929–1940). In: Intercultural Education, Folklore, and the Pedagogical Thought of Rachel Davis DuBois. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26222-8_6
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