Purging U. S. Education History: Ignoring Past Mistakes and Successes
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
They are doing strange things to Colleges of Education in this country, and one of the weirdest is dropping education history courses from required teacher preparation. According to Education Week there is a decline in these classes for teachers.
Why is this troubling? I am not conspiratorial, but wiping out coursework about education’s past frightens me.
P.L. Thomas who is Professor of Education at Furman University, has a post titled“Dismantling an Unstable Discipline: Education without Foundation” which Purging U. S. Education History: Ignoring Past Mistakes and Successes: