Education As Freedom African American Educational Thought and Activism |
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Editor:
| Anderson, Noel S. Kharem, Haroon |
Contribution by:
| Akom, A. A Banks, Ojeya Cruz Hurley, Eric A. Johnson, Karen A. King-Calnek, Judith Perlstein, Daniel Ross, Sabrina |
ISBN: | 978-0-7391-3260-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
Publisher: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionEducation 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.