ETHS 4120 - African Americans in Education

(3 Units)

Course provides students with a historical perspective on African-American education and learning. Students will study the relationship between knowledge and power in African American history, and how blacks have strived to acquire intellectual knowledge against overwhelming odds of racial oppression. Beginning with slavery, the course will explore a range of topics, including the significance of literacy acquisition for bonded men and women, black school development and pedagogy as a survival response to white supremacy, and the specific cultural and instructional issues that emerge for teachers dealing with black children in different cultural and educational settings. Students will develop an appreciation for the role of education in African American struggle and also develop skills of intercultural competency for teaching African American children.

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