Unveilings Through Transformative Pedagogy

2018 ◽  
pp. 206-224
Author(s):  
Shannon Marie Coffey
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Underrepresented Students ◽  
Teacher Preparation Program ◽  
Transformative Pedagogy ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Talented Tenth ◽  
Educational Paradigm

The following theoretical, reflexive investigation traces founding American sociologist, Civil Rights activist, and educator Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois' intellectual evolution from his initial propositions provided within “The Talented Tenth” into what Du Boisian intellectual Reiland Rabaka terms the “Guiding Hundredth.” Whereas Du Bois is typically seen as only advocating for a liberal arts education, his revised paradigm really sought access to both liberal arts and vocational training curricula. He especially wanted youth to have viable options for pursing either. The primary author provides reflexive insights into how the course of this investigation shaped her own understanding of her relationship to academia, her advocacy for underrepresented students, and her commitment to pursue secondary licensure and a Master's degree in education within a formal teacher preparation program. The investigation furthered her social justice-oriented commitment to strive for equity working toward the realization of Du Bois' emancipatory, transformative educational paradigm.

“Change the Man and the Environments Will Be Changed by Man”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald K. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Black College ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
Public Entity ◽  
Training Institute

This chapter examines the creation of the National Religious Training Institute and Chautauqua (NRTIC), while also revealing a shift in Shepard’s approach to racial issues in North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century. I analyze relationships that Shepard built with Benjamin Newton Duke and the Duke family and other philanthropists. Moreover, I discuss Shepard’s position on the Washington/Du Bois debate. Shepard is considered by scholars of NCC as a colleague of Washington while also garnering the respect of Du Bois. I reveal the influence and respect that Shepard had within North Carolina as NRTIC shifted from a private to a public entity and became the first publicly funded black college in the South that focused primarily on liberal arts education.

American Archias: Cicero and The Souls of Black Folk

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Withun
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Argumentation ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Black Folk ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Explicit Reference ◽  
Souls Of Black Folk ◽  
Work First

Abstract While scholars have long noted the classical influences apparent in the style and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, there has been little sustained discussion of the nature of these influences and their manifestations in his writings. This article seeks to correct that absence through an examination of the influence of Cicero’s Pro Archia poeta on Du Bois’s most well-known work, The Souls of Black Folk. Though Du Bois mentions many other authors in Souls, the Pro Archia is the only work of another author mentioned by name as a source for Du Bois’s thought. Extrapolating from this explicit reference to the Pro Archia as well as numerous other references to and influences by Cicero’s works throughout Du Bois’s oeuvre, I posit a two-fold influence of the Pro Archia on Souls as Du Bois draws upon the dual argument in Cicero’s work. First, Du Bois seeks to defend the civil rights of African Americans, drawing on Cicero’s argument for the legal status and citizenship rights of the poet Archias. Both Cicero and Du Bois go beyond mere legal argumentation, however, to provide a defence of the necessity of the liberal arts and a celebration of poets and their work.

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