The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois

by Alridge, Derrick P.

• ISBN13: 9780807748374
• ISBN10: 0807748374
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-22
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

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 He draws on a plethora of published and unpublished primary sources to illuminate Du Bois's educational thought on a wide variety of issues, such as women and education, black leadership, black identity, civil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.

Author Biography

Derrick P. Alridge is associate professor at the College of Education and associate professor and director of the Institute for African American Studies in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
A Du Boisian Journey	p. 2
A Context of Ideas	p. 4
Complexities and Challenges	p. 5
Structure of the Book	p. 8
Development of a Mind, 1868-1895	p. 9
The Education of W.E.B. Du Bois	p. 11
The World of Du Bois's Youth	p. 11
Great Barrington, Massachusetts	p. 15
Fisk University	p. 18
Harvard University	p. 22
University of Berlin	p. 28
Conclusion	p. 31
Educating and Uplifting the Race, 1895-1920	p. 33
The "Negro Problem" in the Age of Social Reform	p. 35
The Progressive Ethos	p. 35
Thomas Jesse Jones	p. 39
John Dewey	p. 39
The Educator as Scientist	p. 42
Conclusion	p. 49
Black Educators and the Quest to Uplift and Develop the Race	p. 51
Alexander Crummell	p. 51
Booker T. Washington	p. 52
Anna Julia Cooper	p. 55
Kelly Miller	p. 57
Nannie Helen Burroughs	p. 58
Conclusion	p. 60
Education for Black Advancement	p. 61
Leadership and Liberal Education	p. 61
Education and Identity	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 67
Educating the Black Masses in the Age of the "New Negro," 1920-1940	p. 69
The "New Negro," Economic Cooperation, and the Question of Voluntary Separate Schooling	p. 71
War and Blacks	p. 71
The "New Negro" Consciousness	p. 72
The Economic Conditions of African Americans	p. 75
Black Economic Cooperation	p. 76
Voluntary Separate Schooling	p. 79
Conclusion	p. 85
African American Educators, Emancipatory Education, and Social Reconstruction	p. 86
Alain Locke	p. 86
Carter G. Woodson	p. 88
Mary McLeod Bethune	p. 91
Charles H. Thompson	p. 93
Horace Mann Bond	p. 95
The Social Reconstructionists	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 100
Education for Social and Economic Cooperation	p. 101
Communal and Community-Based Education	p. 101
Toward a Broader Educational Vision	p. 103
Black History Education and Collective Racial Consciousness	p. 106
Conclusion	p. 108
The Freedom to Learn: Liberation and Education for the World Community, 1940-1963	p. 109
The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement	p. 111
The Coming of the Cold War	p. 111
The Decline of Progressive Education and the Rise of the Cold War	p. 112
Du Bois and the Coming of the Modern Civil Rights Movement	p. 113
From Brown v. Board and King to Ghana	p. 115
Septima Clark: Echoes of a Du Boisian Pedagogy	p. 119
Conclusion	p. 121
Education for Liberation	p. 122
Freedom to Learn, Critical Thinking, and Basic Skills	p. 122
From the Talented Tenth to the Guiding Hundredth	p. 127
Afrocentric, Pan-African, and Global Education	p. 129
Education in The Black Flame	p. 132
Conclusion	p. 135
Conclusion: Du Bois's Legacy for the Education of African Peoples and the World Community	p. 137
Du Bois's Legacy for African American Education	p. 137
A Du Boisian Vision	p. 143
Notes	p. 145
Selected Bibliography	p. 173
Index	p. 181
About the Author	p. 190
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