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Beyond Survival: A Case Study Of The Milwaukee Urban Waldorf School, Phaizon Rhys Wood

Doctoral Dissertations

Schooling has often provided possibilities for the practice of freedom with respect to the education of African-American children but has, at the same time, represented a threat to their system of survival. Hale (cited in Hale-Benson, 1990) believes that what is needed is an education that provides cultural continuity - not intervention. The challenge is to provide an effective education - one that can "conceptualize Black children within the context of their culture" (p. 210).

The literature review that follows provides the foundation for the argument that a model already exists that is emancipatory in its original design, that identifies …