Constructing a Culture Main Menu Constructing a Culture Introduction: A Snapshot in Time Sensible Schooling Setting the Stage for Visual Culture See and Hear! Incorporating Audio-Visual Education into the Classroom Life Adjustment Movement Philosophy of education in which students are "adjusted" to American life. Films in the Classroom New Film Helps Girls Creating a Visual Culture through Print Media In the Beginning: A Brief History of LIFE Magazine Post War Teen Tuning The Building Blocks of Visual Culture Bibliography

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In the years following World War II (1945 - 1955), film and print media created sources geared at the newly acknowledged teenage audience. In order to contain the rapidly expanding group, adults chose to "construct a culture" by impressing white, bourgeois values on the teens. 

"Constructing a Culture" was created by four graduate students enrolled in Professor Roshanna Sylvester's "Doing Digital History" course at DePaul University (HST 438 & DHS 460).

Using the course theme: "How to be Popular?" as our guide, each contributor selected and researched one primary-source piece of media. After composing an essay detailing our source in context, and adding our media to an Omeka site, our final project is to create a Scalar site. 

METHODS:
Each contributor was responsible for research on his or her own primary-source material. After brainstorming the theme for Scalar, students worked individually, yet collaboratively to develop the website. 

GRADUATE STUDENT BACKGROUND:
Micah Ariel
Micah is a  Pre-Service Teacher in the College of Education at DePaul University. Micah's research centers on the history of education from World War I through the end of World War II and the immediate post-war period with a specific focus on funding, curriculum, and the development of Audio-Visual education. Micah's contributions to this project include a brief history of Audio-Visual education and an analysis of primary source documents from See and Hear: The Journal of Audio Visual Education.

Jessica Martinez
Currently enrolled in the College of Education program at DePaul University seeking a degree in Secondary Education. Jessica focused on the use of film in the classroom as a means to educate teenage youth on sensitive and taboo topics. Contributions include the review of A New Film Helps Girls, found in The Education Screen, and the Disney Film The Story of Menstruation. 

Vince Sandri
Vince is a Masters in History student that focused on educational philosophy during the Cold War through analysis of the educational film "Freedom to Learn," the review for this film printed in Educational Screen: The Audio-Visual Magazine, and additional secondary sources. Vince's contributions to this project include descriptions of these two primary sources as well as the context essays for the Life Adjustment Movement and McCarthyism in Education pages.

Maureen Kudlik
Masters of English Literature and Digital Humanities Graduate student. Maureen focused on the rise of teenagers in photojournalist Nina Leen's photo-essay, "Tulsa Twins: They Show how much the Teen-age World has Changed". Exploration and promotion of conformity through uniformity in fashion and gender roles is discussed. 
 

 

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