Full Description
This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies, such as geography, history, and vocational education. Contributors focus on the ways African Americans were excluded or included in the social education curriculum and the roles that black teachers played in crafting social education curricula.
Contents
Introduction: Social Studies and Race; C.Woyshner & C.Bohan Race, Social Studies, and Culturally Relevant Curriculum in Social Studies' Prehistory: A Cautionary Meditation; R.E.Butchart The Early History of Negro History Week; S.Bair Notions of Citizenship: Discussing Race in the Shortridge High School Senate, 1900-1928; J.S.Clark The Racial and Cultural Assumptions of the Early Social Studies Educators, 1901-1922; T.D.Fallace Countering the Master Narrative in US Social Studies: Nannie Helen Burroughs and New Narratives in History Education; A.Murray-Blue Race in Elementary Geography Textbooks: Examples from South Carolina, 1890-1927; M.Spearman Atlanta's Desegregation Era Social Studies Curriculum: An Examination of Georgia History Textbooks; C.Bohan & P.Randolph Placing Social Justice at the Center of Standards-Based Reform: Race and the Social Studies at McDonogh #35 Senior High, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1980-2000; E.DeCuir Did Curriculum Reform Support Racial Integration?; J.Watras African-Centered Education in the Detroit Public Schools, 1968-2000; A.Halvorsen Epilogue; M.Crocco
