MITYear 1,
Winter,2004
HISTORY PROJECT
EDUCA TIONAL RACISM
GUIDING
QUESTION: How did ethno-centrisim, racism, sexism, class and religious
values,democracy, and a developing capitalistic economy affect the evolution of
public schools in America?
Your group's
task is to research the policies of segregation and exclusion in relationship
to African American, Hispanic and Latino, Asian American, and Native American
students. Pay careful attention to the social, economic, political, and legal
contexts that supported these policies.
- Each of YOu will need to seek
information from at least 3 sources, BEGINNING with Chapters 8, 9, and 10
of The American School by Joel Spring. Take thorough notes about the
issues that affected the development and content of schools during this
period.
- After gaining an overview of
the issues from Spring, meet as a group and decide on , particular issues
to focus on as each of you pursues your next two sources (see linked
websites for possible source material). For example, one of you might want
to learn more about the positions of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T.
Washington concerning the education of African Americans. Others could
pursue a deeper understanding of the laws governing citizenship, methods
of deculturalization, or issues in Mexican American, Native American,
Asian American, or Puerto Rican education.
- Each person will hand in an
individual annotated bibliography of her/his sources.
- Next, your group needs to meet
and decide how to create a time-Iine of the time period covered by your
research. Include the events pertaining to education, politics, the
economy, and society that you discovered in your individual research.
- Next, as a group, design and
create a poster that provides a visual representation of .key issues
covered in Spring's text, and, .the particular topics each of you
investigated. You could use H-maps, Venn diagrams, concept maps, etc.
- Then, decide together how you
will present your findings to the program. You will have 40 minutes to
teach your peers about the issues you researched. Review the models of
teaching, select an approach, and write your lesson plan. Be sure to
connect the information you researched to the functions of schooling that
education in this time period served and to the guiding question.
- Finally, write three
assessment questions (and their answers) that could be used to assess your
peers' understanding of the information you will be presenting. Before
writing your questions, revisit Arends' section on Bloom's taxonomy. Only
one question can be at the knowledge or comprehension level.
- On Tuesday, Feb. 3 you will
teach your section and hand in
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An
annotated bibliography from each group member
·
The
group's timeline
·
The
group's poster
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The
group's lesson plan
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Three
assessment questions, with answers, developed by the group
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Assessments
by each person for each member of the group