Eugenics and Education in America

Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory

Ann Gibson Winfield (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

195 Seiten

2007
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-8146-3 (ISBN)

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Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics – an ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. Eugenicists targeted entire ethnic groups, the urban poor, rural «White trash,» the sexually «deviant,» Blacks, Jews, Native Americans, Asians, Latino/as, and anyone who did not fit with the pseudo-scientifically established «superior» Nordic race. Education leaders, complaining of children of «worm-eaten stock,» established an enduring system to organize and sort students according to perceived societal worth. In exposing and addressing eugenics’ place in our educational system, this book provides a groundbreaking addition to, and exceptional correction of, the history of curriculum in America.

The Author: Ann Gibson Winfield is Assistant Professor of Historical and Philosophical Foundations at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. She received her Ph.D. in educational foundations, research, and leadership, with a concentration in curriculum studies from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Reihe/Serie	Complicated Conversation ; 18
Reihe/Serie	Complicated Conversation ; 18
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	310 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	0-8204-8146-7 / 0820481467
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-8146-3 / 9780820481463
Zustand	Neuware