Season 1, Episode 4: The Educational Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois

We sit down with Dr. Randall Westbrook to discuss the educational philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois and consider its implications for schools today. 

Featuring Dr. Randall Westbrook, lecturer in the School of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Hosted by Dr. Brian Mooney, Assistant Professor of Education. Executive Produced by Allen Debren, Director of Instructional Technology Development.

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About Dr. Randall Westbrook:

Bio- https://www.fdu.edu/profiles/randall_westbrook/

Rutgers Alumni Spotlight- https://gse.rutgers.edu/alumni-spotlight-dr-randall-westbrook/

Dr. Westbrook's Book:

Westbrook, R. (Ed.) (2013). Education and Empowerment: The Essential Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois. Hansen. https://hansenpublishing.com/titles/education-and-empowerment/

References:

05:21 - X, Malcolm, 1925-1965. (1965). Malcolm X: The ballot or the bullet. Pacifica Foundation. https://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/mx.html

07:13 - Muhammad, G. (2020). Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy. Scholastic. https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/cultivating-genius-an-equity-framework-9781338594898.html

08:56 -Du Bois, W. E. B. (1903). Souls of Black folk. A. C. McClurg. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300195828/the-souls-of-black-folk/

13:51 - Burch, K. (2016) Platonic & Freirean Interpretations of W. E. B. Du Bois's, “Of The Coming of John.” Educational Studies, 52:1, 38-50, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2015.1120209

2$:50 - Yosso, T. J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race Ethnicity and Education, 8(1), 69-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/1361332052000341006

25:20 - Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). The dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African American children. Jossey-Bass. https://www.amazon.com/Dreamkeepers-Successful-Teachers-American-Children/dp/1119791936/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1703099457&sr=1-1

27:10 - Du Bois, W.E.B. (1903).  The talented tenth. In The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative Negroes of Today. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-talented-tenth/

35:47 - Lewis, D.L.(1994). W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a race, 1868-1919. Holt. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466841512/webdubois18681919

35:48 - Lewis, D. L. (2000). W.E.B. Du Bois: The fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963. Holt. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466841505/webdubois19191963

38:02 - Coates , T. (2015). Between the world and me. Spiegel & Grau. https://ta-nehisicoates.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/

39:25 - Morrison, T. (1993). Playing in the dark: Whiteness and the literary imagination. Vintage. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674673779

40:17 - Engram, F. V. (2023). Black liberation through action and resistance. MOVE. Rowman & Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780761874164/Black-Liberation-through-Action-and-Resistance-MOVE