The educational thought of W.E.B. Du Bois : an intellectual history / Derrick P. Alridge ; foreword by V.P. Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alridge, Derrick P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

African Americans--Education.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

xvii, 189 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2008]

Summary:

This is the first published, comprehensive interpretation of Du Bois's educational thought. Historian Derrick P. Alridge moves beyond the overly discussed "debates" between Booker T. Washington and Du Bois to provide fresh insights into Du Bois's educational thinking. He draws on a plethora of published and unpublished primary sources to illuminate Du Bois's educational thought on a wide variety of issues, such as women and education, black leadership, black identity, civil rights, black higher education, community education, and academic achievement. This incisive examination of Du Bois: Covers 70 years of Du Bois's life, from his graduation as the first black Ph.D. recipient at Harvard to his death in Ghana. Traces Du Bois's relationships with Booker T. Washington and other African American thinkers of his time. Shows how events such as lynchings, Reconstruction policies, and Progressivism influenced Du Bois's life and thinking.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.

ISBN:

9780807748367

0807748366

9780807748374

0807748374

OCLC:

180852120