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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Freedom school"”.
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"There's no school like Freedom School!" : a qualitative exploration of the experiences and values of educators who are former Servant Leader Interns
… all students. Children's Defense Fund's (CDF) Freedom Schools use non-traditional methods with their students who are from marginalized backgrounds. This study focused on seven teachers from across the United States who were once CDF Freedom Schools participants and their experiences and values …
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A Historical Perspective of the Freedom Schools: Implications for Social Change
… Crusade for Children developed a program called Freedom School to address the problem of education within the Black community. This study sought to analyze and fully understand the development of the Freedom School program from the perspective of the participants. The study used a case study …
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Resistance, education, and rites: An ethnographic study on Afrocentric community education
<p>In 2016, the Detroit Independent Freedom School Movement (DIFS) was established out of the need for positive educational activities for children of the dismantled Detroit Public Schools (DPS). The movement was organized by Detroit community members who created grassroots organizations in …
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Educating for social change: The history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1932-1964
This thesis documents how the Freedom Schools, an historical example of radical education, developed in Mississippi in 1964 and postulates why Freedom Schools developed in their particular social, economic, and political context. My analysis begins with Myles Horton, a radical educator in Tennessee …