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Henry A. Giroux – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
This article examines how the concept of freedom has been appropriated by the far right to impose a number of authoritarian policies designed to dismantle the critical functions of public and higher education. It explores, in particular, the ways in which Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has used an appeal to freedom to punish critics,…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Educational Policy, Political Issues, Politics of Education
Kerry Burch – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2024
While the project of consolidating democracy into a durable and highly esteemed value in American culture has always been difficult to sustain, especially within the public schools, the struggle now assumes the character of a grave and inescapable need. Given the authoritarian and fascist resurgence across the globe, democracy and its accompanying…
Descriptors: Democracy, Cultural Context, Civics, Democratic Values
Zaino, Karen – American Educational History Journal, 2019
In this article, inspired by Toni Morrison's evocative description of places that are "never going away" and events that "will happen again," the author explores the historical legacies of racism, law enforcement, and educational inequality in Covington, Kentucky. The author argues that these legacies can best be understood by…
Descriptors: State History, Racial Bias, Law Enforcement, Equal Education
Justice, Benjamin – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
Schooling in the United States has never been a public good, nor has "the public good" been its primary goal. Since its origins in the early nineteenth century, schooling has been a "white" good, designed to promote white advantage. Three mechanisms, among many, have been key to this process: the relationship of schooling to…
Descriptors: Education, Whites, Racial Factors, Racism
Dickenson, Beau; Thacker, Emma – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2023
This article details how a team of fourth-grade teachers in Rockingham County, Virginia used the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) to deepen student understanding of Barbara Johns and the Moton Student Strike's fight for racial justice in Virginia and to reframe their overall approach to Black history in general. Although Rockingham County Schools are…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Blacks, African Americans
Driskell, Wyatt – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
This article uses Charles W. Mills' Racial Contract to interrogate the political, historical, and philosophical roots of the conservative campaign against critical race theory (CRT) in schools. Prescribing that political power will be used to maintain a white supremacist racial hierarchy, the Racial Contract connects itself to American schools…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Political Issues, Racism, United States History
Flynn, Joseph; Kahn, Elizabeth; Werderich, Donna E. – Middle School Journal, 2023
It is important to prepare middle level teacher candidates with the dispositions, content knowledge, and pedagogy needed to implement justice-oriented practices in middle level curriculum. This article explores using "Hateful Things," a traveling exhibit curated by the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, to integrate issues of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Racism, Primary Sources, Social Justice
Aguilera, Jocelyn Isabel – History Teacher, 2023
Examining the political activism of high school students provides a window to fully understand the rich history and resistance of young people of color from South Central Los Angeles who blazed the trail in many crucial battles during the civil rights era. Researching John C. Fremont High School's history shows that the high school reflects a…
Descriptors: Activism, High School Students, Females, Minority Groups
Lori-Ann Newman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The United States history survey course is a standard high school history class in the state of New York. The academic goal is for students to understand key people and developments that molded the United States into its modern identity as a progressive, democratic nation-state. This research examined one manifestation of this course in New York…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary, Language Usage, History Instruction
Hannah K. D’Apice; Patricia Bromley – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Anthropogenic climate change is a scientific fact, but U.S. public discourse around the issue remains mired in controversy, including in education. Our study leverages natural language processing methods to give a precise look into the extent to which climate change-related topics are covered in 30 of the most widely used high school history…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Discourse Analysis, United States History
Kretsinger-Harries, Anne C. – Communication Teacher, 2021
Courses: Rhetorical criticism, public address, persuasion, public memory theory, argumentation. Objectives: Through analysis of public controversies about Confederate monuments on college campuses, students will: (1) explore the concept of "public memory," how groups of people form shared interpretations of the past; (2) examine how…
Descriptors: Memory, United States History, Controversial Issues (Course Content), College Environment
Lander, Jessica – Educational Leadership, 2021
When teaching a course on American diversity, Jessica Lander realized that to understand the complexity of justice-related policies and events in U.S. history, students needed to relate personally. She had students write personal reflections on what it means to be American, which dealt with issues from immigration journeys, learning a new…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Diversity, Multicultural Education
Sanders, Paul D. – Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 2021
Many of the first public school music teachers in the United States came from the singing school tradition and taught from the same tune books that had been used in singing schools. After the war, renewed interest in education and the establishment of graded schools soon led to the introduction of music series that were designed to serve the…
Descriptors: Singing, Educational History, United States History, Music Education
Rothstein, Richard – American Educator, 2021
Until the last quarter of the 20th century racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African Americans should live. Today's residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or regulation but is…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, African Americans, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination
Harris, Shakeel A. – American Journal of Play, 2021
The author examines the childhood experiences of formerly enslaved children. He suggests that the conventional understandings of scholars and historians concerning play may not be applicable to the complex lives of enslaved children because researchers do not consider such children as always propertied beings. Their play practices were molded by…
Descriptors: Slavery, African Americans, Children, Play