Jon Hale
Assistant Professor
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Phone: 843.953.6345
E-mail: halejn@cofc.edu
Research Interests
History of American Education; Education during the Civil Rights Movement; History of Student Activism and Grassroots Organization; Democratic Educational ReformCourses Taught
EDFS 201: Introduction to Education
EDFS 652: Foundations of Education
Publications
“The Student as a Force for Social Change”: Student Engagement in the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1964-1965,” Journal of African American History (Forthcoming, Fall 2011).
“The Freedom Schools, the Civil Rights Movement, and Refocusing the Goals of American Education,” The Journal of Social Studies Research (Forthcoming, Fall 2011)
"Early Pedagogical Influences on the Mississippi Freedom Schools: Myles Horton and Critical Education in the Deep South," American Educational History Journal 34, no. 2 (2007): 315-330.
"A History of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1954-1965," (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009)
Encyclopedia of African American Education, “Citizenship Schools." (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2009).
Encyclopedia of African American Education, “Freedom Schools.” (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2009).
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, "Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1964." (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006).
Book Review. Marcus D. Pohlmann. Opportunity Lost: Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008). History of Education Quarterly 50 (1) May 2010: 243-245.
Book Review. J. Wesley Null, Peerless Educator: The Life and Work of Isaac Leon Kandel (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2007). Found at Education Review < edrev.asu.edu>
Book Review. Adam Fairclough, A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2007) in History of Education Quarterly 48 (1) March, 2008: 152-156.
Book Review. Sarah Sentilles, Taught in America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005). Found in Teachers College Record 108 (8) August, 2006: 196-197.
Book Review. Marybeth Gasman & Katherine Sedgwick, eds. Uplifting a People: African American Philanthropy and Education (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005). Found at Education Review < edrev.asu.edu >
