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Outside In - Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (Paperback, New Ed)
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Outside In - Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (Paperback, New Ed)
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Ever since the massive immigration from Europe of the late 19th
century, American society has accommodated people of many cultures,
religions, languages, and expectations. The task of integration has
increasingly fallen to the schools, where children are taught a
common language and a set of democratic values and sent on their
ways to become productive members of society. How American schools
have set about educating these diverse students, and how these
students' needs have altered the face of education, are issues
central to the social history of the United States in the 20th
century.
In her pathbreaking new book Paula S. Fass presents a wide ranging
examination of the role of "outsiders" in the creation of modern
education. Through a series of in-depth and fascinating case
studies, she demonstrates how issues of pluralism have shaped the
educational landscape and how various minority groups have been
affected by their educational experiences.
Fass first looks at how public schools absorbed the children of
immigrants in the early years of the century and how those children
gradually began to use the schools for their own social purposes.
She then turns to the experiences of other groups of Americans
whose struggles for educational and social opportunities have
defined cultural life over the last fifty years: blacks, whose
education became a major concern of the federal government in the
1930s and 1940s; women, who had access to higher education but were
denied commensurate job opportunities; and Catholics, who created
schools that succeeded both in protecting minority integrity and in
providing Catholics with a path to American success. Along the way,
she presents a wealth of fascinating and surprising detail. Through
an examination of New York City high school yearbooks from the
1930s and 1940s, she shows how a student's ethnic identity
determined which activities he or she would engage in and how
ethnicity was etched into schooling. And she examines how the New
Deal and the army in World War II succeeded in educating large
numbers of blacks and making the inequalities in their educational
opportunities a critical national concern.
A sweeping and highly original history of American education,
Outside In helps us to understand how schools have been shaped by
their students, how educational issues have merged with wider
social concerns, and how outsiders have recreated schooling and
culture in the 20th century. By opening up new historical terrain
and rejecting a vision of outsiders as merely victims of American
educational policy, the book has important implications for
contemporary social and educational issues.
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