Lecture: Country School Legacy on the Western Slope of Colorado by Andrew Gulliford

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Dr. Andrew Gulliford, head of The Country School Legacy Project (a survey of rural schools over eight states, funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities) presents information from the project in a lecture at the Museum of Western Colorado. The lecture includes reflections from rural school teachers in Colorado, including teaching techniques, discipline problems, infectious diseases, and issues with poorly constructed buildings. Teachers also offer opinions on education in rural schools, and the decline of said schools. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.

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Title: Lecture: Country School Legacy on the Western Slope of Colorado by Andrew Gulliford
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Subject: Education, Teachers -- Colorado, Rural schools -- Colorado -- History, Youth -- Social life and customs, Women -- West (U.S.) -- History, Women teachers, Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado, Western Slope (Colo.) -- History, Local, Garfield County (Colo.) -- History, Corporal punishment, Communicable diseases in children, Colorado -- Social life and customs, Moffat County (Colo.) -- History
Description: Dr. Andrew Gulliford, head of The Country School Legacy Project (a survey of rural schools over eight states, funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities) presents information from the project in a lecture at the Museum of Western Colorado. The lecture includes reflections from rural school teachers in Colorado, including teaching techniques, discipline problems, infectious diseases, and issues with poorly constructed buildings. Teachers also offer opinions on education in rural schools, and the decline of said schools. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Date: Feburary 25, 1981-
Type: Voice Recording
Format: 1 MP3 audio file (45:06) digitized from source material (Interview 421: Audiocassette 1); +1 transcript.
Identifier: mesa:1283, : OH 421 Gulliford, Andrew (Country School Legacy)
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Language: English
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Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=enlocalorganization:2Mesa County Librariesorganization:1040Museums of Western ColoradoThis Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). For rights management and/or licensing questions, please see http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ or http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/copyright-law Other inquiries may be sent to the Lloyd Files Research Library at the Museums of Western Colorado: https://museumofwesternco.com/contact/ Alternatively, inquires may be sent to Mesa County Libraries: https://mesacountylibraries.org/aboutus/contact/English

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Lecture: Country School Legacy on the Western Slope of Colorado by Andrew Gulliford

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