For your Unit Paper III, you
will respond to a specific prompt that reflects our Unit 3 theme: Making
Schools, Making Communities: Black Collectivism and (Educational)
Self-Determination (1960 – 1980s).
Unit 3 Prompt
This unit on Unit III: Making Schools, Making
Communities: Black Collectivism and (Educational) Self-Determination (1960 –
1980s) presents historiography of Black American education and examines civil rights and post-civil rights struggles
in K-12 and higher education to advance educational self-determination as well
as Black efforts to enact school change and improvement. You will provide a
synthetic and analytic review of this research FOCUSING ONLY ON WEEKS 10 AND
11, responding to the following questions:
Respond to this Prompt using only the references provided: In what ways did Black Americans during the
civil rights and Black power eras work to advance Black educational progress in
K-12 and higher education? What do these various efforts
suggest about the ways Black Americans had come to view the purpose of
education during the Black movement era (‘60s and ‘70s) and in the immediate
aftermath of the movement (i.e., 1970s – 1980s)?
Points
Suggested Organization
Roadmap
15 points
.50 pages
Introduce the central claim of your paper
and provide a roadmap for the rest of the paper.
50 points
3 pages
Synthesis. Summarize the literature presented in this unit to respond to
the questions posed in this prompt.
Questions to consider
as you engage in synthesis:
1) What ideas about the nature, purpose, history, and goals of
education show up in this unit’s readings?
2) How did
the thinkers and actors covered in this unit differ in their pedagogy,
methodologies, and motivations?
3) How did
understandings of freedom, liberation, personhood, community, democracy, and equality inform the strategies and goals
of Black political action?
4) What do the debates around the form and function of education offered
in this unit tell us about the American
educational project or aspects of the American educational project, and how African
Americans came to view them?
35 points
1.5 page
Analysis/Implications. What
visions of Black liberation, self-determination, and personhood are captured
in the various educational advocacy projects covered in this unit?
Questions to consider
as you reflect on the implications of
these various projects:
Consider what you know
about the current state of Black education. (How) Might examining the tensions of this
period provide insight into Black education today?
Are any framings of these issues more
useful than others?
Which ideas or concepts, if any,
deserve additional consideration, elaboration, or clarity?
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