Discourses of Education and Citizenship in Historical Policy Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel explores the way school leaders, policy-makers, and textbooks have portrayed and promoted citizenship in different social and political contexts. The first paper investigates how national debates over slavery, emancipation, and citizenship for free blacks unfolded in the moral philosophy textbooks appearing in antebellum private schools and academies. The second paper explores the relationship between education and voting rights through the lens of the campaign to establish national aid for education just after the Civil War. The third paper examines the role the public schools in Hawai'i played in the campaign for statehood from 1920 through 1959. The fourth paper traces how Native Hawaiians used public and private schools’ citizenship training to more fully participate in American society.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Chair

• Kim Tolley, Notre Dame de Namur University

Papers

• Textbook Slavery: Debates Over Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in U.S. Moral Philosophy Textbooks, 1795-1859 - Kim Tolley, Notre Dame de Namur University

• Education and Voting Rights: Understanding the Consequences of the Failed Effort to Establish National Aid for Education, 1870-1906 - Nancy Beadie, University of Washington

• Statehood and the Schools: Citizenship, Public Education, and Hawai‘i’s Campaign to Become the 49th State - Michelle M. Morgan, Missouri State University

• Educated to Resist: Educational Policy and the Origins of the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement, 1921-1976 - Derek Taira