U.S. education and the persistence of slavery

Abstract

This study presents an examination of the institution of American slavery as it relates to current hegemonic issues in education, revealing a persistence of slave trade ideology through education and challenging the slow and possibly deliberate progress to close the Achievement Gap/Debt.

Contributor

Stacy Johnson is a third-year doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching with a cognate in Curriculum and Instruction. Retired from classroom teaching after almost 25 years of K-20 instruction, she is pursuing her Ph.D. to focus on her work with pre-service and in-service teachers as an instructional coach in the area of Transformative Pedagogical praxis. As a multi-ethnic woman (African American, Blackfoot, Seminole, Cuban and European), her research focus centers around restorative justice and decolonization of U.S. education.