Searching for “That Which the Soul Lives By”: A Hurstonian Model for Researching Black Educational Histories in Florida

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 9:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Voices of the Diaspora: Exploring Educational Histories, Perspectives, and Practices (Table 12)

Abstract

The purpose of this presentation is to present research in progress on the excavation of an empirical model to guide in the research on the Jeanes Supervisors of Florida, a cadre of Black women educators who led in the transformation of Black schooling and education in the South using the wisdoms of theory and practice of Zora Neale Hurston.

Author

• Melanie M. Acosta, Florida Atlantic University