Description: You will consider issues related to inequality in 19th-century education and consider whether schooling reinforced patterns of racial and ethnic inequality, or if education altered prevailing social structures and moved the United States toward a more equal, democratic society.
Learning Outcomes: After this module you will be able to:
Identify historical and philosophical examples of the significance of race and ethnicity in nineteenth-century education and schooling.
Articulate different historical and philosophical perspectives on education for African Americans and immigrants.
Understand philosophical differences between assimilationist and culturally-responsive approaches to educating students from diverse backgrounds.
Discussion Questions:
According to the texts, what were the differences between Washington’s and DuBois’s arguments about education for African Americans?
According to the texts, how did assimilationist approaches to education manifest in schooling for Native Americans and immigrants?
How do multicultural and culturally-responsive approaches to education differ from dominant nineteenth-century views about education?