Howard Zinn and the Socially Conscious Academic

Autor/in	McKivigan, John R.
Titel	Howard Zinn and the Socially Conscious Academic
Quelle	In: International Journal of Social Education, 24 (2009) 1, S.27-32 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0889-0293
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Slavery; United States History; Civil Rights; Educational Change; Social Responsibility; Educational History; College Environment; Teacher Role; Historians; Biographies; College Faculty; Scholarship; Activism; Dissent; Political Attitudes; Civil Disobedience; Historical Interpretation; Historiography; History Instruction; Politics of Education; Role of Education; Social Change; Social Justice; Educational Philosophy; Consciousness Raising + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sklaverei; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Bildungsreform; Soziale Verantwortung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Hochschulumwelt; Lehrerrolle; Historian; Historiker; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Fakultät; Scholarships; Stipendium; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Dissens; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ziviler Ungehorsam; Historische Interpretation; Geschichtsschreibung; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsauftrag; Sozialer Wandel; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bewusstseinsbildung
Abstract	In recent decades many people came to know Howard Zinn for his outspoken advocacy on a wide range of progressive causes, including civil rights, free speech, workers' rights, education reform, and opposition to U.S. imperialism. The author's own first encounter with Howard Zinn's special combination of scholarship and activism occurred several decades earlier, while he attended graduate school in the 1970s to study U.S. history. The first time the author read Zinn was in a short essay, entitled "Abolitionists, Freedom Riders and the Tactics of Agitation," in Martin Duberman's "The Antislavery Vanguard: New Essays on the Abolitionists" (1965). This essay guided the author to Zinn's "SNCC: The New Abolitionists" (Zinn 1964), one of his first monographs. In his essay Zinn attempted to stress the parallels between the early nineteenth century reformers who challenged not just slavery but the pervasive racial prejudice of their society and the recruits to the post World War II civil rights movement. In this article, the author talks about Howard Zinn and the socially conscious academic. He discusses how Zinn set an example to progressive academics not to retreat into their scholarship. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10