This book takes readers through W.E.B. DuBois' groundbreaking exhibit about African Americans at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. With more than 200 black- and-white images, Provenzo explores the diverse lives of African Americans, from challenges to accomplishments.
Computing, Knowledge, and the Transformation of Learning
Exploring the impact of technological evolution since the 1960s, this book critiques the resulting shifts in culture and education. Named after Charles Babbage's pioneering calculating machine, it offers a unique perspective on how these changes have shaped contemporary society. Through this lens, the author examines the profound effects of technology on visual geography and cultural dynamics, fostering a deeper understanding of our current landscape.
Forty-seven popular science experiments of the past, all of which can be performed with household materials, and dealing with such principles as air pressure, buoyancy, gravity, inertia, and sound.
Contents: The Editorial Board: Orientation - The Editorial Board: The Ives Law - John Dewey: Can Education Share in Social Reconstruction? - The Editorial Board: Collectivism and Collectivism - The Editorial Board: Academic Freedom - The Editorial Board: Editorial Comments on the Social Frontier - The Editorial Board: Champions of Freedom - Merle Curti: Our Revolutionary Tradition - Harry D. Gideonse: Non-Partisan Education for Political Intelligence - The Editorial Board: The Hearst Attack on Academic Freedom - Harold Rugg: The American Scholar Faces a Social Crisis - The Editorial Board: Seeds of Revolt - William F. Ogburn: Prospecting for the Future - John Dewey: Toward a National System of Education - William H. Kilpatrick: Loyalty Oaths - A Threat to Intelligent Teaching - Granville Hicks: The Captive School - Norman Thomas: The New Deal - An Appraisal - The Editorial Board: Teachers and the Class Struggle - John Dewey: The Meaning of Liberalism - Charles A. Beard: The Social Studies Curriculum - The Editorial Board: The New Aristocracy - John Dewey: Liberalism and Equality - Myles Horton: The Highlander Folk School - The Editorial Board: Shall Teachers Be Free? - John Dewey: The Social Significance of Academic Freedom - William H. Kilpatrick: Freedom to Develop Social Intelligence - Carleton Washburne: Indoctrination Versus Education - Lionel Heap: The Little Red Rider - John L. Childs: Democracy, Education, and the Class Struggle - Wilfred Eberhart: Poems - Congress of the United States, House of Representatives: Survey of Teachers and Their Political Opinions - John Dewey: Rationality in Education - John Dewey: President Hutchins' Proposals to Remake Higher Education - Robert M. Hutchins: The Crisis in Contemporary Grammar, Rhetoric, and Mr. Dewey - John Dewey: The Higher Learning in America - John Dewey: Education and Social Change - Carl Bode: Footnote - Leon Trotsky: Question and Answer - The Editorial Board: The Dies Committee and True Americanism - Margaret Mead: The Problem of Minorities - Jesse H. Newlon: Teachers and Politics - 1940 - Harold Rugg: This Has Happened Before - The Editorial Board: This War and American Education - The Editorial Board: Education and Total War - B. Othanel Smith: Essentials of Education for a People's Peace - Directors of the Progressive Education Association: The Directors of the Progressive Education Association Vote 12 to 3 to Discontinue Publication - Harold Rugg: We Accept in Principle but Reject in Practice. Is This Leadership? - The Editorial Board: In Retrospect.
The great International Expositions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought together the world's political, intellectual, and industrial leaders for the exchange of information and ideas. They also promoted specific cultural values and belief systems. In this book, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. looks specifically at the educational exhibits at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In doing so, he demonstrates how the educational exhibits functioned as critical transfer points for the exchange of educational ideas and innovations between Europe, Asia, and the United States. In addition, he examines how many of the exhibits reflected a dominant Western hegemony and racist assumptions about the superiority of Western culture and education.