Education as Freedom (eBook)

African American Educational Thought and Activism

Noel S. Anderson, Haroon Kharem (Herausgeber)

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2009
242 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-3260-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Education as Freedom is a groundbreaking edited text that documents and reexamines African-American empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to knowledge-making, teaching, and learning and American education from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, a dynamic period of African-American educational thought and activism. Education as Freedom is a long awaited text that historicizes the current racial achievement gap as well as illuminates the myriad of African American voices and actions to define the purpose of education and to push the limits of the democratic experiment in the United States.

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Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role of education in American freedom and progress emerged from African American civic, political, and religious communities and was informed by the complexity of the Black experience in America. Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Activism is a groundbreaking edited text that documents and reexamines African-American empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to knowledge-making, teaching, and learning and American education from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, the most dynamic period of African-American educational thought and activism. African-American thought and activism regarding education burgeoned from traditional academic disciplines, such as philosophy and art, mathematics and the natural sciences, and history and psychology; from the Black church as well as from grassroot political, social, cultural, and educational activism, with the desire to assess the stake of African Americans in modernity.

Autor

Noel S. Anderson is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Haroon Kharem is assistant professor in the School of Education at Brooklyn College.

Inhalt

Part 1 Introduction. Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and ActivismPart 2 Section I. From Bondage to Freedom: Early African American Educational Thought and ActivismChapter 3 Chapter 1. Medical Doctor, Integrationist, and Black Nationalist: Dr. James McCune Smith and the Dilemma of Antebellum Intellectual Black ActivistChapter 4 Chapter 2. John Mercer Langston and the Shaping of African American Education in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 5 Chapter 3. On Classical vs. Vocational Training: The Educational Ideas of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen BurroughsPart 6 Section II. This Skin I'm In: African American Identity and EducationChapter 7 Chapter 4. Womanist Conceptualizations of African-Centered Critical Multiculturalism: Creating New Possibilities of Thinking about Social JusticeChapter 8 Chapter 5. The Performance Gap: Stereotype Threat, Assessment, and the Education of African American ChildrenChapter 9 Chapter 6. Katherine Dunham: Decolonizing Dance EducationPart 10 Section III. Advancing the Race: African American Education and Social ProgressChapter 11 Chapter 7. Live the Truth: Politics and Pedagogy in the African-American Movement for Freedom and LiberationChapter 12 Chapter 8. Black Schools, White Schools: Derrick Bell, Race, and the Failure of the Integration Ideal in BrownChapter 13 Chapter 9. Research for Liberation: DuBois, the Chicago School, and the Development of Black Emancipatory Action Research

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2009
• Co-Autor: A.A Akom, Ojeya Cruz Banks, Eric A. Hurley, Karen A. Johnson, Judith King-Calnek, Daniel Perlstein, Sabrina Ross
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American Studies • Africana Studies • education, families, and health • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-3260-1 / 0739132601
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-3260-9 / 9780739132609