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Publication Date: 2017
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Freedom Train: The Underground Railroad as a Model of Christian Education, Antiracism, and Human Rights Advocacy
Fears, Barbara A.
Religious Education, v112 n1 p19-32 2017
The Underground Railroad is the first racially integrated civil/human rights movement in the United States. The basic concepts of "escape" and "travel" that undergird the movement offer a way of envisioning the teaching/learning exchange as leaving behind unhealthy ideologies, and as journeying with students from one place of understanding to another. The primary participants and select aspects of the movement also offer a way of understanding teaching/learning in the classroom. Benefits of religious educational programming utilizing the proposed model include: developing awareness of the interrelatedness of race/racism/religion/power and a countercultural, counterhegemonic perspective that is informed by faith and evidenced by praxis.
Descriptors: Christianity, Civil Rights, Religious Education, Travel, Teaching Methods, Slavery, Race, Racial Bias, Power Structure, Freedom, Advocacy, Clergy, Critical Theory, Models, Religious Factors
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