Unshackled: Education for Freedom, Student Achievement, and Personal Emancipation / by Greg Wiggan, Lakia Scott, Marcia Watson, Richard Reynolds.

Harnessing conceptual inspiration through the work of Harriet Tubman and Queen Nanny the Maroon of Jamaica, this book explores the historical and contemporary role that education has – and can continually play as an instrument of personal and group liberation. The book discusses the early formations...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (108 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The World Under Siege and the Railroad to Freedom: Unshackled
  • Global and Local Resistance; Memories of the Motherland-Africa, Unshackled
  • Journey to Freedom: From Miseducation and Colonization to Liberation
  • To be Unshackled: The Rise and Fall of Tucson, Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Program
  • Nontraditional Models of Success: The Charter School Option
  • Unshackled: School Reform and the Way Forward
  • References
  • About the Author
  • Index.