Reclaiming the multicultural roots of U.S. curriculum : communities of color and official knowledge in education

Reclaiming the multicultural roots of U.S. curriculum : communities of color and official knowledge in education /

"This book serves as a much needed correction to the glaring gaps in U.S. curriculum history. Chapters focus on the curriculum discourses of African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos during what has been construed as the 'founding' period of curriculum studies,...

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Main Authors: Au, Wayne, 1972- (Author), Brown, Anthony Lamar (Author), Aramoni Calderón, Dolores (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, 2016.
Series:Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Education > Curricula > Social aspects > United States.
Curriculum change > United States.
Multicultural education > United States.
Curriculum change.
Education > Curricula > Social aspects.
Multicultural education.
Education.
United States.
Education > Effect of multiculturalism on
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Peculiar Sensation of Curriculum History: Challenging the Canon of Curriculum Studies
  • Understanding the Context of Curricular Silence
  • The Master Narrative at the Foundation of Curriculum Studies
  • Digging in the Crates: A Guiding Metaphor to Critical Revisionist Curricular History
  • Theoretical Lenses
  • The Chapters
  • 2. Education for Colonization or Education for Self-Determination?
  • Early Struggles over Native American Curricular Sovereignty
  • Indigenous Curriculum for All of Time
  • The Advent of zIndian Educationy Under the Federal Indian
  • Policies of the United States
  • Curricular Genocide and Curricular Self-Determination: The Challenges of Native Curricular Discourse
  • Curricular Discourse During Colonial Times
  • Curricular Self-Determination in the Context of Colonization
  • Federal Off-Reservation Boarding Schools
  • Curricular Genocide and the Assault on Indian Identity
  • Rebelling Against Curricular Genocide
  • Reappropriation, Survival, and National Resistance Through Schooling
  • Indian Education and the Progressive Era of Curriculum Reform
  • Conclusion
  • vi Contents
  • 3. Cultural Maintenance or zAmericanizationy?
  • Transnational Curriculum and the zProblemy of Chinese American and Japanese American Education in the Early 20th Century
  • Asian America and the Focus of this Chapter
  • Historical Context for Chinese and Japanese American Curricular Discourse
  • Early Chinese American Transnational Curricular Discourse
  • Early Japanese American Transnational Curricular Discourse
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Colonial Legacies: Shaping the Early Mexican American Discourse in Texas and New Mexico
  • Mexican Americans and the Focus of This Chapter
  • Colonial Origins of Mexican American Curricular Discourse
  • The Context of New Mexico
  • The Context of Texas
  • Mexican American Racial Ambiguity and the Impact on Schooling
  • From Colonization to Segregation in Schools: Two Sides of the Same Coin
  • Eugenics, IQ Testing, and the Segregation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans
  • Challenging and Resisting Segregated Schooling
  • Early Life and Educational Trajectory of George I. Sánchez
  • The Many Influences on the Work and Life of George I. Sánchez
  • Conclusion
  • 5. African American Curriculum History: A Revisionist Racial Project
  • The Context of African American Curricular Revision
  • The Nadir: Theology, Science, and Curriculum
  • African American Image Making and the U.S. Curriculum
  • Children’s Literature and the Curriculum of Race Making
  • Textbooks and Race Making
  • Reconstructing the zNegroy، A Revisionist Ontological Project
  • Journal of Negro Education as Countercurricular Space
  • Contents vii
  • The Critical Appraisals of the Journal of Negro Education
  • Against Anti-Black Curriculum: Textbooks, Encyclopedias, and Children’s Literature
  • Concluding Thoughts on African American Curricular History
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Afterword: What We Must Know /Michael Dumas
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Authors
  • 1. The peculiar sensation of curriculum history: challenging the canon of curriculum studies
  • 2. Education for colonization or education for self-determination?: early struggles over Native American curricular sovereignty
  • 3. Cultural maintenance or "Americanization"?: transnational curriculum and the "problem" of Chinese American and Japanese American education in the early 20th century
  • 4. Colonial legacies: shaping the early Mexican American discourse in Texas and New Mexico
  • 5. African American curriculum history: a revisionist racial project
  • 6. Conclusion.

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