Event Details

End: February 15, 2015
Contact: dublinseminar@historic-deerfield.org
More Info: www.historic-deerfield.org/dublinseminar

Historic Deerfield, Inc., in conjunction with The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (founded 1976) is pleased to announce the subject of next year’s conference, Schooldays in New England: 1650–1900, to be held June 19–21, 2015.

The Seminar is now accepting proposals for papers, presentations, and site visits on the culture of education in New England and adjacent areas of New York and Canada from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. The conference will focus on schooling and curriculum over four centuries, including the one-room public schoolhouse and extending to private academies, religious academies, female seminaries, high schools, colleges, and universities; it will also encompass specialized educational venues like circuit and summer schools, singing schools, dancing academies, penmanship schools, schools of art and drawing, academies for blind and deaf students, ethnic language schools, and schools for African Americans, Native Americans, and other populations. The conference will deal with educational artifacts; school architecture; school settings; pedagogy and discipline; school uniforms; primers and educational publications for children; community and parental involvement in education; nostalgia; public exhibitions of skill and awards of merit; and the shifting profiles and roles of teachers and students in New England schools and society.

For further information on how to submit a paper proposal for the conference please visit www.historic-deerfield.org/dublinseminar or contact Peter Benes, Director, at 978-369-7382 or dublinseminar@historic-deerfield.org.