Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Childs, Andrew Geddings
Author's Email Address	achilds1@hotmail.com
URN	etd-08242008-230658
Title	Ocean Hill-Brownsville and the Change in American Liberalism
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	American and Florida Studies, Program in
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Dennis Moore Committee Chair Neil Jumonville Committee Member Susan Wood Committee Member
Keywords	Professionalism Liberalism Decentralization Democracy Community Control Neoliberalism
Date of Defense	2008-08-21
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis explores the relationship of the confrontation at Ocean Hill-Brownsville and the change away from New Deal liberalism and toward separatism. Through historicizing this issue, I also critiquethe changing nature of professionalism, the push for community control and decentralization of schools, and how these ideas influence democracy in education. Various people involved in the confrontation during the summer and fall of 1968 represent the particular positions of each side of the issue. Further, these two sides are also personified in the AFT (American Federatino of Teachers)and the advocates of community control and decentralization. Through my examination, I attemtp to locate the importance of the experiment in community control in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district under the greater context of American liberalism.
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