Date of Award
8-1972
Document Type
Thesis open access
Abstract
This study deals with a growing educational problem, that of educating the high school dropout. It does not attempt to treat the subject from the point of view of a professional educator or even as a student of the literature on the subject. It attempts, instead, to describe and review the writer's own impressions during a two-year relationship with a school for dropouts, the Healy-Murphy Learning Center. The writer relates those impressions to current thoughts and trends in attacking this problem of urban society. In reviewing this experience, considerable effort has been devoted to some research into the general background of the dropout problem, particularly among Black youth of the inner city, with whom the school is essentially concerned. The inspiration to serve as a volunteer teacher at HMLC came about indirectly as a result of the writer's affiliation as a graduate student in the Department of Urban Studies at Trinity University. My teaching assignment was not in fulfillment of the:internship requirement of the University program. It did develop, however, out of the profound effect of the writer's learning experience concerning the problems of our ethnic minorities.
Recommended Citation
Vexler, Esther, "Healy-Murphy Learning Center: An Experiment in Educating the Dropout" (1972). Masters Theses. 2.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/masterstheses/2