American Women — Education

  • Suffocation in suburbia 4: Education: training ground or playground? / Kate Mueller (Episode 12 of 15)

    Part 12 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 4 of “Suffocation in Suburbia.” In this recording Kate Hevner Mueller, Ph.D(1898-1984), Professor of Higher Education, Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana) presents “Education: Training Ground or Playground?”…

  • The East Bay Activities Center / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

    The East Bay Activities Center was established as a non-profit organization in 1952 and held forth as its mission to serve emotionally disturbed children of normal intelligence between the ages of 5 and 12. This is a panel discussion on this unique Bay Area experiment in dealing with disturbed children. Elsa Knight Thompson moderates, and…

  • Academic freedom, academic attack: women’s studies under siege at Cal State Long Beach

    The women’s studies department at Cal State Long Beach is under siege by a group of “concerned citizens,” from the Christian Right who monitored a few classes and attacked the department for its openly pro-feminist and pro-lesbian syllabus. Eloise Klein Healy and Helene Rosenbluth talk with Sondra Hale, Sherna Gluck, and Betty Brooks of the…

  • Progressive teachers in Los Angeles / Cricket Potash and Jeff Horton interviewed by Joan Vogel and Clare Spark

    United Teachers Los Angeles members Cricket Potash and Jeff Horton discuss teaching conditions and areas for possible reform in Los Angeles schools, bureaucratization, reducing teaching to clerical work, and teaching corporations usurping budgets. Joan Vogel and Clare Spark are the interviewers. They take calls from listeners after 40 minutes of discussion.

  • Where is the women’s program?

    Dorothy Healey moderates a panel discussion on the current state of the Women’s Liberation movement, Socialist Feminism, and Women’s educational programming, among other topics, with Barbara Dudley with the Berkeley-Oakland Women’s Union, Maria Ramos of the Socialist School of the New American Movement, Jan Breidenbach of the Los Angeles New American Movement, and Diane Horowitz…

  • Women in religious life

    Documentary on the role of women in organized religion, featuring several women in religions life including Bonnie Daniel, Pastor, and Pat Piven, Exhorter, from the West Bay Metropolitan Community Church in Santa Monica; Presbyterian interim pastor Donna Prickett; and three members of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart religious community: Margaret Welsh, who heads the…

  • Mary Holmes : art educator

    Clare Loeb interviews Mary Holmes, art educator at University of California, Santa Cruz. The teacher discusses both the needs and objectives of art education. Holmes discusses her experiences as an artist growing up during the Depression, the hostility between between artists and art historians, her experiences with her students, what “success” means as an artist,…

  • Margaret Mead talks about the generation gap

    Anthropologist Margaret Mead speaking on March 15, 1971 at University of Southern California about the current generation gap and the need for commitment in the post-college generation.

  • The Rage of a middle-aged college president / Sister Helen Kelly

    Sister Helen Kelly, President of Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, delivers her Baccalaureate Address to the graduating class of 1969. Her talk concerns the Church, the violence of men, and how our indifference leads to the perpetuation of cruelty. Music by Hoyt Axton, “The Epistle.” Introduced by Tom Ritt. Recorded at Immaculate Heart College, Los…

  • What is Montessori / Mario Montessori and Lena Wikramaratne interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    WHAT IS MONTESSORI? / Mario Montessori and Lena Wikramaratne interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. Mario Montessori is the son of the founder of the famous Montessori system of education, and Miss Lena Wikramaratne is the West Coast Director of Association Montessori Internationale teacher training program. In this program, they discuss the experimental school for young…