Tucker Collection, 1941-1991
Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 34.00 boxes
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
This collection contains documentations such as audio files, legal documents, personal documents, and video documentations from Jan L. tucker depicting the global impact of the educational system based on different events and cultures. Such examples include comparison to the Chinese curriculum and relations within Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War and how the United States schools were adjusting, such as at Miami Edison Middle School. Additional content emphasizes on Global Awareness Programs (GAP) to help students of South Florida relate to the curriculum over schools on the international scale.
- Biographical / historical:
Professor Jan L. Tucker was among the first global educators nationally and internationally and was a former professor at Florida International University. She strived in presenting the students of South Florida a global perspective that what occurs in South Florida does not occur everywhere, and vice versa. The idea was the more her students knew about the world around them, the more they realized it's not as small.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
Rights: In copyright. Standardized rights statement: https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
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- Location of this collection:
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Florida International University11200 SW 8th StreetMiamiFL33199USA
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