The educational thought of W.E.B. Du Bois : an intellectual history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alridge, Derrick P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2008]
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Table of Contents:
  • The education of W.E.B. Du Bois. The world of Du Bois's youth; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Fisk University; Harvard University; University of Berlin; Conclusion
  • The "Negro problem" in the age of social reform. The progressive ethos; Thomas Jesse Jones; John Dewey; The educator as scientist; Conclusion
  • Black educators and the quest to uplift and develop the race. Alexander Crummell; Booker T. Washington; Anna Julia Cooper; Kelly Miller; Nannie Helen Burroughs; Conclusion
  • Education for Black advancement. Leadership and liberal education; Education and identity; Conclusion
  • The "new Negro," economic cooperation, and the question of voluntary separate schooling. War and Blacks; The "new Negro" consciousness; The economic conditions of African Americans; Black economic cooperation; Voluntary separate schooling; Conclusion
  • African American educators, emancipatory education, and social reconstruction. Alain Locke; Carter G. Woodson; mary McLeod Bethune; Charles H. Thompson' Horace Mann Bond; The social reconstructionists; Conclusion
  • Education for social and economic cooperation. Communal and community-based education; Toward a broader educational vision; Black history education and collective racial consciousness; Conclusion
  • The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. The coming of the Cold War; The decline of progressive education and the rise of the Cold War; Du Bois and the coming of the modern Civil Rights Movement; From Brown v. Board and King to Ghana; Septima Clark : echoes of a Du Boisian pedagogy; Conclusion
  • Education for liberation. Freedom to learn, critical thinking, and basic skills; From the talented tenth to the guiding hundredth; Afrocentric, pan-African, and global education; Education in The Black Flame; Conclusion
  • Conclusion : Du Bois's legacy for the education of African peoples and the world community. A Du Boisian vision.