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Rury, John L.; Darby, Derrick – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This paper examines the impact of war on African-American education. This question is considered in three different periods: the eras of the American Revolution, the Civil War and the Second World War. Large-scale conflict, such as these instances of total war, can afford historical moments when oppressed groups are able take steps to improve…
Descriptors: War, African American Education, Educational History, United States History
Engl, Margaret; Permuth, Steven B.; Wonder, Terri K. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2003
In the "Columbia Law Review," Harry Jones (1974) illustrates five general and sometimes overlapping purposes of the law. They include the preservation of the public peace and safety, the settlements of individual disputes, the maintenance of security expectations, the resolutions of conflicting social interests, and the channeling of…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Educational History, Social Change, Educational Change
Alexander, Neville – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
Although this author knew very little about the details of "Brown v. Board of Education" as a legal matter when he read about it as a young second-year student at the University of Cape Town in 1954, the Court's verdict had a direct influence on his political perspectives and on his aspirations as a would-be teacher for the rest of his…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries, Racial Discrimination
Hendricks, Monica – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
This chapter argues that a detailed, grounded understanding of classroom literacy practices as well as of learners' writing is crucial to begin to change the ongoing and patently unequal educational outcomes that schools often produce. It is impossible to intervene realistically and effectively in an evidential vacuum. The 1955 "Brown v.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Court Litigation