The White architects of Black education : ideology and power in America, 1865-1954 / William H. Watkins ; foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, William H. (William Henry), 1946-

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Teaching for social justice series

The teaching for social justice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Education--History--20th century.

African Americans--Education.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2001]

Summary:

In this long-awaited book, Timothy J. Lensmire examines the problems and promise of progressive literacy education. He does this by developing a series of striking metaphors in which, for example, he imagines the writing workshop as a carnival or popular festival and the teacher as a novelist who writes her student-characters into more and less desirable classroom stories. Grounded in Lensmire's own and others' work in schools, Powerful Writing, Responsible Teaching makes powerful use of Bakhtin's theories of language and writing and Dewey's vision of schooling and democracy. Lensmire's book is, at once, a defense, a criticism, and a reconstruction of progressive and critical literacy approaches.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0807740438

080774042X

OCLC:

45320602