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Lessons in Relationality: Reconsidering the History of Education in North America
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Aladejebi, Funké; Fraser, Crystal Gail – History of Education, 2023
This article offers a sampling and critique of the history of education in North America, including Canada, the United States and Mexico. Being Black and Indigenous academics, respectively, the authors' scholarship centres on community relationships, considering activism around #BlackLivesMatter and Indigenous Peoples, especially with the news of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Intellectual Disciplines, Residential Schools, Violence
How Colonialism Contributed to the Racialized History of Indigenous People by Unethical Diagnostic Implementations of Categories and Classifications -- Overlooking Exceptionalities
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John Terry Ward – Roeper Review, 2024
This article looks at how colonialism has contributed to the racialized history of Indigenous people by unethical diagnostic implementations of categories and classifications, while overlooking exceptionalities when assessing Indigenous people. By understanding how settler-colonial assessments and/or diagnostic tests have been developed and…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Indigenous Populations, Land Settlement, United States History
"To Give Light Where He Made All Dark": Educating the Blind about the Natural World and God in Nineteenth-Century North America
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Pearce, Joanna L. – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
Nineteenth-century educators worried that blind children were particularly susceptible to moral apathy, religious decay, and atheism because they could not see the beauty of nature. These educators used instruction in biology, zoology, and natural history to teach blind children about the beauty of the natural world and the breadth of God's…
Descriptors: Blindness, Educational History, Science Education, Students with Disabilities
Borders and the Borderless Coast Salish: Decolonising Historiographies of Indigenous Schooling
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Marker, Michael – History of Education, 2015
Historians of education wanting to develop culturally responsive historiographies of Indigenous communities should move beyond a reliance on government and church policy documents--with some variegations of testimony from residential school survivors. The unique circumstances of colonisation that were forged by national/settler policies should be…
Descriptors: Historians, Educational History, Oral History, Primary Sources
American Indian/First Nations Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present
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Glenn, Charles L. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Tracing the history of Native American schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large--and sometimes within indigenous communities--which led to Native American children being separate from the white majority. Charles Glenn examines the evolving assumptions about race and culture as applied to schooling, the reactions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, American Indians, Educational History
DIRECTORY OF RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED, A NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES (SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, HOMES) FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
MILLIGAN, GLENN E.; NISONGER, HERSCHEL W. – 1965
PUBLIC RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES (138 IN THE UNITED STATES AND 10 IN CANADA) RESPONDED TO A MAIL INQUIRY FORM. INFORMATIVE DATA ARE LISTED REGARDING (1) THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRESENTLY OPERATIONAL INSITUTIONS, (2) RATED CAPACITIES AND ACTUAL POPULATION, (3) ADMISSION POLICIES, (4) CHARACTERISTICS OF RESIDENT POPULATION, (5) RESIDENT PROGRAMS,…
Descriptors: Directories, Educational Facilities, Exceptional Child Education, Facilities