Building underground and protected schools to survive nuclear war and desegregation in the 1960s
Conference paper
Preston, J. 2014. Building underground and protected schools to survive nuclear war and desegregation in the 1960s. BERA. Institute of Education, London 25 Sep 2014
Authors | Preston, J. |
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Type | Conference paper |
Abstract | In the 1960s federal agencies in the United States encouraged the building of protected schools designed to survive a nuclear attack. A number of designs, including underground schools, were constructed. In order to promote the building of protected schools, the US government produced a number of propaganda films for school boards and governors. In addition to promoting post-nuclear survival, these films considered that protected schools were beneficial in terms of progressive and child-centred education as well as racial assimilation. Given the conflation of progressive education with Communism in the ‘red scares’ of the 1950s this approach by the US government initially appears to be contradictory. This paper considers how securitisation and progressive education found a common purpose at this time and considers the implications of this for race equality. |
Keywords | Education; Nuclear War; Historical |
Year | 2014 |
Conference | BERA |
Accepted author manuscript | License CC BY-ND |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 24 Mar 2015 |
Completed | 25 Sep 2014 |
Accepted | 25 Sep 2014 |
Funder | Economic and Social Research Council |
Economic and Social Research Council | |
License | CC BY-ND 4.0 |
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