Education as Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

African American Educational Thought and Activism
Redaktion: Anderson, Noel S.; Kharem, Haroon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739132609
• Artikelnr.: 39150464

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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