Educational Innovators: Profiles from the American Past
At a recent panel presentation in Burlington, Vermont, public school teachers and students discussed the innovative projects that they were engaged in at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. After they were asked how they found the energy and motivation to create these projects, particularly during a global pandemic, one teacher explained that while they are not superheroes, they are rebellious. In my talk I will explore that rebellious spirit in educators from the past: the teachers and students of the Eagleswood School at the utopian Raritan Bay Union in the 1850s, the community involved in John Dewey’s Laboratory School at the turn of the twentieth century, and the Black teachers connected to the educational networks created by Carter G. Woodson and others in Jim Crow America.
Monday, February 14 at 3:00 pm
Presented by Anne Durst, Associate Professor, Educational Foundations
Lectures will be held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Olm Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services, 435 West Starin Road, Whitewater. They are open to the public. Registration is not required. Masks may be required in common areas at Fairhaven Senior Services. Please be prepared on arrival. Lectures will be recorded and posted to our website and YouTube channel. Videos of lectures in this series and in past series can be accessed for free any time after they are posted online.
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