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Gunn, Dennis – Religious Education, 2019
The Religious Education Association (REA) selected as its theme for its 1969 National Convention, "Our Divided Society--A Challenge to Religious Education," addressing, among other topics, issues of race and racism. Previously, the REA presented a mixed legacy in addressing racial injustice, remaining largely silent on such issues during…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Professional Associations, Race, Racial Bias
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Weissman, Rebecca – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
Although common schooling began to take off in the northern United States around the 1830s, it did not gain great momentum in the South until the postbellum period. Spanning this lengthy Common School era, this article explores the role white supremacy played in both the development and the impediment of schooling for the masses in the southern…
Descriptors: Educational History, Whites, Racial Attitudes, Racial Discrimination
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Farley, Jennifer; Richardson Bruna, Katherine; Martinez Oropeza, Dawn; Ayala, Yesenia – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
"Al Éxito" supports the leadership development, post-secondary education, and civic engagement of Iowa Latina/o youth. In the summer of 2015, it piloted "Movimiento Al Éxito," a "pop up" summer program. In this article, we detail the innovative components and curriculum and describe our journey with "new…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Summer Programs, State History, Hispanic American Students
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Loss, Christopher P. – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
America's sprawling system of colleges and universities has been built on the ruins of war. After the American Revolution the cash-strapped central government sold land grants to raise revenue and build colleges and schools in newly conquered lands. During the Civil War, the federal government built on this earlier precedent when it passed the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, War, World History, United States History
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García, Romeo – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2020
The humanities continue to witness a decolonial turn. The decolonial project is radical and dangerous because it is an epistemic, political, and ethical project that marches toward a vision of humanity-in-difference. The exhaustion of the episteme, border, and oppositional consciousness politics, though, exposes limitations and indicates the…
Descriptors: Humanities, Hispanic American Students, Higher Education, College Students
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Conrad, Jordan A. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
The history of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the United States is, in many ways, a triumphant story reflecting an increasingly progressive attitude acknowledging the equality of all persons. The law now recognizes people with IDD as citizens, possessing an equal right to education, health care, and employment--each of which…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, United States History, Social Bias
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Polk, Sarah; Sharfstein, Joshua; Hernando, Mary Ann; Moon, Margaret; Richards, Shamelle – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2018
The highly publicized imposition and retraction of the "family separation" border policy by the current U.S. Administration was not an anomaly in U.S. history. In this manuscript, we place these troubling recent events in the context of decades of U.S. immigration policies and politics. We then describe the consequences of family…
Descriptors: Immigration, Public Policy, Federal Government, United States History
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Endo, Rachel – Children's Literature in Education, 2018
The year 2017 will mark the 75th anniversary when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 or EO 9066 on February 19, 1942. EO 9066 led to the mass incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans into ten racially segregated concentration camps throughout the U.S. This article discusses the educational and literary…
Descriptors: Novels, Adolescent Literature, Japanese Americans, United States Literature
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Gordon Ginzburg, Etti – Children's Literature in Education, 2018
This essay suggests a queer reading of the poem "My Japanese Fan" by American children's writer Laura Richards. Published in 1890, the poem stands out as conspicuously queer even today. While describing a Japanese figure of ambiguous gender, the poem outlines for its young readers terms for defining sexual identity that lie outside…
Descriptors: Poetry, Childrens Literature, Gender Issues, Sexual Identity
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Sanders, Paul D. – Contributions to Music Education, 2018
Nonsectarian Sabbath or Sunday schools served as an important entry point for public schooling in the first decades of the nineteenth century. These schools provided the basic spelling, reading, and writing instruction often required for admission into public schools. Singing was also an essential component of Sunday schools, and basic instruction…
Descriptors: Music Education, Public Schools, Educational History, United States History
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Pullan, Sam – Teaching History, 2022
Sam Pullan explains how a chance encounter has helped him to improve his introduction to the modern themes and founding documents of US politics. Working with a professional historian whom he met, by chance, over dinner, he was able to produce lessons at the cutting edge of subject knowledge to grab the attention of his Year 11 pupils. This…
Descriptors: Historians, History Instruction, Lesson Plans, Grade 11
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Jowers, Richard F.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2022
Purpose: To construct the life history of an exemplary veteran African American physical education teacher education faculty member. Method: The participant was Dr. Andrew Lewis, a retired professor from the College of Charleston. Data were collected through formal semistructured interviews, informal interviews, and documents and artifacts. They…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Racism, Ethnic Stereotypes
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Rivas, Elizabeth D. – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
This essay explores the institutionalized master narrative of public institutions and how the mandated policies enacted by public institutions impact social studies teachers when they are delivering instruction to their students. A socio-transformative constructivist framework guides the essay in order to affirm that knowledge is socially…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Social Studies, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2021
The "IDRA Newsletter" serves as a vehicle for communication with educators, school board members, decision-makers, parents, and the general public concerning the educational needs of all children across the United States. The focus of this issue is "Student Voice." Contents include: (1) How Can We Address a Problem that We…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Student Participation, Student Attitudes, Activism
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Gillmer, Jason – Social Education, 2017
The year 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Supreme Court's most important decisions on race, justice, and equality. In 1967, the Court in "Loving v. Virginia" held that states could no longer prevent people of different races from falling in love and building a family together. The decision had been a long time coming. For…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Racial Bias, Social Justice, United States History
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