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ERIC Number: EJ654812
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Minds Stayed on Freedom: Politics and Pedagogy in the African-American Freedom Struggle.
Perlstein, Daniel
American Educational Research Journal, v39 n2 p249-77 Sum 2002
Explores how analyses and visions of U.S. society shape the appeal of progressive pedagogy but focusing on the evolution of political and educational ideas among African American civil rights activities who created alternative schools for black children in the 1960s and 1970s. Concludes that support for progressive pedagogy depends on the expectation that students will be able to participate fully in the promise of civic life. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Blacks, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights, Educational Philosophy, Political Influences, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Note: Special Issue on Education and Democracy.