Knowing Whats White: Eurocentrism In The Middle School Curriculum- Teachers' Perceptions
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Take racism and sexism. No matter how pervasive they are, you know, they ain't genetic! We learn those systems of inequality. Well, if we learn them then we can unlearn them—or better yet, we can just stop ever teaching that stuff. — Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Kalamazoo College Commencement Address (1992, p. 10) Education, like many other systems, can be used to reproduce social, political, and economic stratifications based on class and race. At the same time, education can also be used as a tool of emancipation to resist the current capitalist structure, and to fight against such separations. The ultimate goal for most social justice educators is what bell hooks calls “education as the practice of freedom” (1994, p. 207), drawing from Paulo Freire’s ideas about education for liberation. In the current educational system in the United States (and around the world), institutions and individuals perpetuate Eurocentrism and inequality based on race both consciously and unconsciously. This re
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Take racism and sexism. No matter how pervasive they are, you know, they ain't genetic! We learn those systems of inequality. Well, if we learn them then we can unlearn them—or better yet, we can just stop ever teaching that stuff. — Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Kalamazoo College Commencement Address (1992, p. 10) Education, like many other systems, can be used to reproduce social, political, and economic stratifications based on class and race. At the same time, education can also be used as a tool of emancipation to resist the current capitalist structure, and to fight against such separations. The ultimate goal for most social justice educators is what bell hooks calls “education as the practice of freedom” (1994, p. 207), drawing from Paulo Freire’s ideas about education for liberation. In the current educational system in the United States (and around the world), institutions and individuals perpetuate Eurocentrism and inequality based on race both consciously and unconsciously. This re
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