Alice Miel (1906-1998)
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1961
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-6077
Education researcher Alice Miel (1906-1998) attended Columbia University (Ph.D., 1944) and became a professor of education and chair of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, at Columbias Teachers College. This photograph was distributed in conjunction with publication of her book Creativity in Teaching (1961). Her 1967 book The Shortchanged Children of Suburbia: What Schools Dont Teach about Human Differences and What Can Be Done About It has been described as a groundbreaking study of how schools were failing to teach about cultural diversity.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-6077
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-6077]