Teachers College, Columbia University

I began to use a critical lens to deconstruct dominant practices and perspectives within our field and ultimately offer a different vision of what is possible.

These became my dissertation research questions at Teachers College.

I paired these questions around control and agency with an ethnographic day in the life observations of one two-year-old child, a research project which had never before been undertaken, spending the life in the intimacy of one two-year-old's world.

I was there in the morning when she woke up, I was there at night when she went to bed, and I was along for the ride in between.

The organization now attracted the attention of educators seeking an instrument for that difficult process of carrying over the lessons of the primary agencies of education, the school and the Sunday school, into the daily life of youth.

Dr. James E. Russell, dean of Teachers College, became an officer of the organization and is active in formulating its educational policies and plans.

Fellowships for the training of leaders have been established

at Teachers College, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, and New York University, while courses for leaders are given in colleges in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Minneapolis.

The entrance of the United States into the war brought the Girl Scouts their great opportunity to translate their Scout vows of loyalty into patriotic

service.

There will also be openings for camp workers who are experts in nature study, dietetics, and so forth.

Preparation necessary the preparation and training necessary for any of the positions at national headquarters are the same as required for any clerical or executive worker in similar fields except that so far as possible these workers are being drawn from among groups of people who have been girl scouts or scout leaders or who have passed through one of the captain's training courses so that the fundamental principles of scouting are familiar to them the same is true of the executive worker in connection with local councils throughout the country for the specialized worker who is to lead scouts or conduct training courses or camps for scouts very definite training is required the opportunities for receiving technical training in scouting for girls are of three kinds certain schools and universities have courses in physical education into which the elements of scouting have been introduced and scout leaders of recognized standing have been asked to give lectures on the subject before these students.

And like they, In that book, they kind of catalog the progressive takeover and the kind of ejection of the classics from American education and what they proposed to replace it with.

But one of the things that they point out in that book is you can actually document an explicit public domain, perfectly acknowledged conspiracy, if you will, open, not secret conspiracy that the Marxists had, the Frankfurt School, to seize the cultural high ground, to take all the pillboxes in the war for the American mind by Columbia School of Education, Columbia Teachers College, I think that's what it's called.

The foundation of the teachers unions, the politicization of the teachers unions, the Department of Education, all this stuff like this was planned.

There were a lot of people working hard at this to capture and dumb down American education.

Well, you are based in New York City, but we were just saying how we're both career change changer dietitians, however you want to call it.

And you were up at Columbia Teachers College.

I was downtown in NYU.

So we were kind of doing a lot of similar things at slightly different times, but it was nice learning about you.