Building Partnerships to Hear Freedom's Heroes within Our Community

Autor/inn/en	Anand, Bernadette; Fine, Michelle; Perkins, Tiffany; Surrey, David
Titel	Building Partnerships to Hear Freedom's Heroes within Our Community
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 44 (2004) 1, S.113-119 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
DOI	10.1111/j.1748-5959.2004.tb00152.x
Schlagwörter	Social Justice; Middle Schools; Municipalities; Oral History; Small Schools; School Desegregation; Educational History; Activism; Grade 7; Civil Rights; Social Change; Feminism; Course Descriptions; School Buses; New Jersey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Magistrat; Oral tradition; Mündliche Überlieferung; School; Schools; Schule; Integrative Schule; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Sozialer Wandel; Feminismus; Kursstrukturplan; Schulbus
Abstract	Each morning, 10 yellow school buses end their circuit through Montclair, New Jersey, to drop off 149 of Renaissance Middle School's 225 students. Community activists, almost forty years ago, had fought long and hard for school integration in this northern town. After court battles, parent meetings, community resistance, and ultimate victory, the struggle resulted in a public school system dedicated to both "choice" and integration. Renaissance School is a racially integrated, explicitly detracked, rigorous small school filled with a faculty dedicated to youth, to rigor, and to social justice. As a faculty, every effort was made to build curriculum through the rich diversity, history, and experience of the town. The theme "Movements and Migrations" organized the seventh-grade curriculum. The students had explored the Civil Rights Movement, the Labor Movement, the Women's Movement, and the Westward movement. To build the oral history project into the curriculum, a weekly oral history course was offered for four sections over nine weeks. During this time, students would conduct up to thirty interviews of people involved in the desegregation efforts and document and present these oral histories in book form to be shared with school and local community. The result was a chronicle of the inequity as well as the possibilities for change, a book entitled, "Keeping the Struggle Alive: Studying Desegregation in Our Town." Since its publication, the youth have presented their work from the book in communities throughout the Northeast. (Contains 1 note.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10