Ronald Butchart
Educational Theory and Practice (Faculty)
Professor, Department Head
630A Aderhold
Phone: 706.542.6490
Email: butchart@uga.edu
Ron Butchart is a professor and the current department head in Elementary and Social Studies Education. His primary affiliation is with the Social Studies Education program. He was trained as a social historian, but has been in teacher education for more than three decades. His teaching and research interests include the history of African American education, the social history of teachers and teaching, and the history of classroom discipline. His newest book, a major new study of the teachers who worked with the freed slaves during and after the American Civil War, is based on a database of more than 11,600 teachers.
Representative publications:
Butchart, R. E. (2010). Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Butchart, R. E. (2010, April). Black hopes, White power: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the legacy of unequal schooling in the U.S. South, 1861-1880. Paedagogica Historica, 46, 33-60
Butchart, R. E. (2007, February). Remapping racial boundaries in reconstruction: Teachers as border police and boundary transgressors in post-Emancipation Black Education, USA, 1861-1876. Paedagogica Historica, 43, 61-78.